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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Kevin Peat wrote:
> Well I think someone wanting a PD project would need to start from 
> scratch anyway as it would be hard for them to demonstrate that any 
> existing data wasn't encumbered with other licenses given the wide use 
> of imports and tracing in lots of countries.

I think so too, but I think this is a problem that we don't need to 
solve now. Should the project want to change their license in 10 years, 
then they will have to think about that then.

It is quite possible that a data source which we have used for tracing 
and which makes certain demands at the moment, stops making these 
demands in the future (eg there might be a source that currently says 
"CCBYSA or ODbL use only" but in 5 years the company has another product 
which is twice as good, and thus decides to lift any license 
restrictions on the old, which would of course also lift the restriction 
on the data in OSM).

There's no reason to limit the options of a future OSM by perpetuating 
some currently existing outside restrictions which may cease to exist at 
any time.

Bye
Frederik