[OSM-legal-talk] Copyright Assignment

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Jan 06, 2010 at 12:03:51AM +0000, Matt Amos wrote:
> any change away from that must be "chosen by a vote of the OSMF
> membership and approved by at least a majority vote of active
> contributors."
> 
> if you want to be consulted about any future licensing change, just
> join OSMF or continue to actively contribute to OSM.

I’m a member of OSMF.  I think the terms are still too broad.  Why is it
mega opt in to effectively giving OSMF complete control?  It doesn’t
need to be, and We already say “you can use our stuff under X licence”.

Simon
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