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

[Richard Fairhurst]

Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> I ask once more
> "from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence?"

It doesn't. That's why it's asking the rights-holders to change the licence
for the data which they've contributed[1].

What OSMF does have, though, is a mandate to host whatever it likes at
openstreetmap.org, because it's the owner of the domain name:

     ~/OpenStreetMap/potlatch2: whois openstreetmap.org
     [snip]
     Domain Name:OPENSTREETMAP.ORG
     Created On:09-Aug-2004 18:47:25 UTC
     whois Registrant Organization:OpenStreetMap Foundation

...just as I can host whatever I like at systemeD.net or geowiki.com,
Frederik can host whatever he likes at geofabrik.de, John can host whatever
he likes at evilbunny.org, and so on.

OSMF has determined, through decisions taken by the elected board and
through a plebiscite of its members, that it would like to host an ODbL+CT
dataset at openstreetmap.org, subject to such a dataset being viable.

That does not change the licence of the data. Only the rights-holders[1] can
do that. Regardless of whether any given rights-holder decides to
additionally offer their data under ODbL+CT, the existing data is still
available under CC-BY-SA and you can host it anywhere you like, e.g. at
fosm.org. But it's OSMF's choice as to what happens at openstreetmap.org.

Richard

[1] insofar as rights exist etc. etc.
-- 
View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-OS-Opendata-the-new-license-tp5538273p5590900.html
Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com.