[OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2
Rob Myers
rob at robmyers.org
Wed Nov 17 11:03:41 GMT 2010
On 11/17/2010 10:42 AM, Ed Avis wrote:
> Rob Myers<rob at ...> writes:
>
>>> My concern is still with the option to licence the data under any
>>> "free and open" licence. Since this has unspecified bounds, I don't
>>> see how any data with any restrictions whatsoever can be contributed
>>> as those restrictions could be broken in the future.
>>
>> The only restriction currently allowed in the CTs is attribution.
>
> That is not specified by the CTs, even in the proposed version 1.2. They say
> that 'OSMF agrees to attribute you or the copyright owner', but they do not
> promise that any future licence chosen will have an attribution requirement.
I mean that the restriction is a (pre)condition for OSM(F) accepting the
data.
You are right that there is no promise to maintain attribution, but
should attribution be removed the condition on which the data was
accepted would be broken and so the data couldn't be used.
- Rob.
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