[OSM-legal-talk] How Can OSMF convince me to accept the New CT and ODBL

[Rob Myers]

On 09/12/10 13:27, Ed Avis wrote:
>>
>> I've seen this point discussed many times before. The CT's do not
>> transfer ownership.
>
> Technically this is true,

Legally it is true.

> but the grant of rights is so broad ('any action
> restricted by copyright') and the limitations of 'any free and open licence'
> and a vote of 'active contributors' are so loosely specified, that it amounts
> to almost the same thing in practice.

What it amounts to is a loss of *control*.

But a proportionate measure of that control is reintroduced through the 
open membership of OSMF and the voting mechanism described in the CTs.

- Rob.