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

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 13:34:12 GMT 2010


On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:49 AM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> (*) But is this really the policy wanted?  So an individual contributor has
> no
> choice - they have to grant an unlimited licence and suck up any future
> licence
> changes.  But a third party can veto licence changes - or insist on data
> deletion, which is more or less the same thing.  Why the difference in
> treatment?
>
> If you publish your data under, say CC-BY, and then contribute it to OSM
under the third-party clause then you can avoid granting an unlimited
license.
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