[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Markus_g]

What was the original vote deciding? What version of ODbl or ODbl + CT or
ODbl + CT (current version)? 

I assume I needed to be a member of OSMF to have been included in the vote. 
I noticed there are 265 members. The vote was 89% yes from 55% of members.

Here is a copy of the human-readable summery that the vote appears to be on.



This is a human-readable summary of the ODbL 1.0 license. Please see the
disclaimer below.
You are free:

    * To Share: To copy, distribute and use the database.
    * To Create: To produce works from the database.
    * To Adapt: To modify, transform and build upon the database.

As long as you:

    * Attribute: You must attribute any public use of the database, or works
produced from the database, in the manner specified in the ODbL. For any use
or redistribution of the database, or works produced from it, you must make
clear to others the license of the database and keep intact any notices on
the original database.
    * Share-Alike: If you publicly use any adapted version of this database,
or works produced from an adapted database, you must also offer that adapted
database under the ODbL.
    * Keep open: If you redistribute the database, or an adapted version of
it, then you may use technological measures that restrict the work (such as
DRM) as long as you also redistribute a version without such measures.

Disclaimer

This is not a license. It is simply a handy reference for understanding the
ODbL 1.0 - it is a human-readable expression of some of its key terms. This
document has no legal value, and its contents do not appear in the actual
license. Read the full ODbL 1.0 license text for the exact terms that apply.






Shouldn't there be another vote if any conditions have changed since the
first vote?

I would have thought this would be mandatory.

markus


-----Original Message-----
From: legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of
kevin at cordina.org.uk
Sent: Friday, 1 October 2010 6:22 PM
To: Frederik Ramm; Licensing and other legal discussions.
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

I thought I had read that there would be a second phase vote at the time of
switch over based on a full understanding of data loss and effect.  I can't
now find that reference so I may have imagined it.

What is happening with the revisions to the CTs?  Will we have to
accept/decline again?  I have accepted the first version, but aren't they
now changing?

Kevin

------Original Message------
From: Frederik Ramm
To: kevin at cordina.org.uk
To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
Sent: 1 Oct 2010 08:37
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

Kevin,

kevin at cordina.org.uk wrote:
> (b) that there is a very clear (and legally sound) description of the
> effect of the new licence when the time comes to vote so we can make
> an informed decision which way to vote based on the effect it will
> have.

I don't know how long you have been following the process, but the vote 
is long past. Members of the OSMF have had such a vote last year and 
agreed to go ahead with the new license. The switch to ODbL is already 
decided; further votes are not planned.

All mappers will be asked to agree to the Contributor Terms, thereby 
effectively agreeing to the relicensing. At that point they have the 
option to not agree, in which case OSMF will stop distributing their 
data; but this is not a vote, just an individual opt-in.

Bye
Frederik


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