[OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

[Anthony]

On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 12/01/2010 11:40 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> fx99 wrote:
>>>
>>> 2 Rights granted. Subject to Section 3 and 4 below, You hereby grant
>>> to OSMF
>>> and any party that receives Your Contents a worldwide, .....
>>>
>>> can somebody explain to me, who is meant by "any party that receives Your
>>> Contents" ?
>>
>> Would that not simply be anyone who e.g. downloads "your contents" from
>> the OSMF servers?
>
> How does this grant interact with 3? Without 3 it would effectively PD the
> data wouldn't it?

Even with 3 it will effectively PD the data.

Damn.  I was hoping no one was going to notice that before the terms
went into effect :).

> I appreciate that the DbCl effectively does this as well, and that in both
> cases the ODbL is what adds the share-alike; I'm just checking. ;-)

You can't "add share-alike" to something which is already public domain.