[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

[Nakor]

  On 9/30/2010 7:51 AM, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>
> The Contributor Terms are the _standard_ agreement between contributors and
> OSMF.
>
> But they do not have to be the only agreement. There is nothing to stop OSMF
> itself adding data outwith the CTs; or coming to different agreements with
> individual contributors; or adding "easements" to the CTs for all
> contributors using particular data sources.
>
> (Reply merely for info, I'm not a huge fan of the CTs.)
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
Let me understand something. I thought the whole point of CT was to ease 
a future license change. If some data is imported under a special 
agreement then when such a license change happens this particular data 
cannot be migrated and possibly ruins efforts from contributor that 
modified that data. So what is the point of having the CT then?