[OSM-legal-talk] To calm some waters - about Section 3

[Anthony]

On Tue, Aug 24, 2010 at 9:21 PM, Simon Biber <simonbiber at yahoo.com.au> wrote:
> Without that, if this license change goes ahead, my survey work over the past
> year, and that of many others, seems likely to be useless for OSM. This is both
> for a philosophical reason (I don't agree with the open-ended contributor terms)
> and for a practical reason (I have used aerial photography to confirm some
> positions, under an agreement that the resulting work could only be released
> under CC-BY-SA).

Changing section 3 of the contributor terms isn't going to fix that.
OSMF still won't release the database under CC-BY-SA, and they'll
still have the ability to selectively enforce the license.