[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 1 October 2010 17:26, Nakor <nakor.osm at gmail.com> wrote:
>  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?

I guess the situation will be slightly better if these non-CT cases
are few and well recorded.  Though personally I don't believe OSM will
need to switch to something that a new version of ODbL can't possibly
fix, and I think that all authors should be asked, if that happens.

Cheers