[OSM-legal-talk] [DRAFT] Contributor Terms 1.2

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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>
> On 11/17/10 10:46, kevin at cordina.org.uk wrote:
>
>> Looking at this the eyes or a data-holder, say the OS, who is
>> considering  allowing data to be used this would be a big concern as
>> the term means they would lose control over how their data is
>> licensed.
>>
>
> No, the data contributed to OSM can come under any terms as long as they
> are compatible with the *current* license; the onus is on OSM to remove it
> if a license change makes continued distribution impossible - quote from
> draft:
>
>
No, the data contributed to OSM must be licensed to OSMF under the
contributor terms:

"You hereby grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a
worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence to do
any act that is restricted by copyright, database right or any related right
over anything within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any
other."

The rider in section three restricts what OSMF can do with the contents but
it doesn't give any contributor the right to agree to the above clause
unless they have full ownership of that content.




> "(b) If we suspect that any contributed data is incompatible [(in the sense
> that we could not continue to lawfully distribute it)] with whichever
> licence or licences we are then using (see sections 3 and 4), then we may
> [suspend access to or ] delete that data temporarily or permanently."
>
> To me, this is the exact opposite of "losing control over how their data is
> licensed".
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
>
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