[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Proposed human readable contributor terms

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> I've created a proposed version of the human readable contributor
> terms on the wiki:
> 
>     http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Human_readable
> 
> The wording can doubtless be improved (please do so!), and maybe
> there's something more to cover. Let's try to keep it short though.

I think the wording is ok, but I would advise against translating it. I 
believe that presenting a crowdsource-translated "summary" above an 
English "legalese" could be interpreted as misleading the users.

Personally, I think that translations are a problem in many places in 
OSM. Stuff is translated and then starts to rot because whoever did the 
translation goes hunting for the next non-translated bit. This is just 
the same as with imports; the translations create documents that nobody 
cares about, that do not have a community to support them.

There seem to be some areas where it works, but I have the impression 
that triumphantly adding a 23rd language to some page on the Wiki does 
not, overall, improve quality.

Bye
Frederik

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