[OSM-legal-talk] CT clarification: third-party sources

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

David Groom wrote:
> Your above paragrapgh neatly sums up to me why the CT's are incompatible 
> with CC-BY, or CC-BY-SA, or indeed many more licences , in that 
> compatability of the CT's could only be ensured if:
> (a) There was some technical mechanism for fallginf data which needs to 
> be removed , and there is no such mechanism; and
> (b)  There was a guarntee that usch data "WOULD" be removed, and there 
> is no such guarantee.

As I understood it, the old CTs basically required the contributor to 
guarantee that his contribution was compatible with the CT, while the 
new CTs only require the contributor to guarantee that his contribution 
is compatible with whatever the current license is.

You're right in that nobody guarantees that data would be removed in the 
event of a change of license, but I don't think that this puts the 
contributor in legal peril.

I don't see any problem on the contributor's side. Where I see the 
problems with this approach is on the OSMF side.

Bye
Frederik

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