[OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

[Tom Hughes]

On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote:

> This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If
> somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't
> think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the possibility of that
> happening. The whole point of the license is to give *nobody* a way to make
> the once open data not open anymore. With the IMDB and the CDDB we have two
> examples where this exact thing went bad. Not somebody coming from the outside
> taking the data and making it proprietary, but somebody from the inside.

Did you read the next paragraph which constrains what they can do with it?

Yes, it is a bit weird to say "we'll have everything" and then in the 
next paragraph "but we'll only do this with it".

Tom

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