[OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Bennett" <stevagewp at gmail.com>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:33 AM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...


>
> Hi,
>  Is the following statement correct: "Under the new Contributor
> Terms, you may only contribute to content to OSM that you own, or have
> been given authority to license to the OSMF for future relicensing."
>
> This is only slowly dawning on me. If this is correct, then we can no
> longer do imports of CC-BY-SA data, unless the original provider
> expressly gives open-ended relicensing permission: that is, simply
> licensing it as CC-BY-SA and ODbL is not enough, we would need an
> explicit statement that the content may be used under the new OSM
> Contributor Terms.
>

Steve
see 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Open_Issues 
where a number of the issues have been raised.

The particular issues I believe you have concerns with have also been 
discussed extensively on this list. You wont be surprised if I say that not 
everyone agrees with you interpretation.

However the CT's are currently being revised, 
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_81272pvt54   and the revised 
version probably  will give you less concern.

Regards

David

> Whee.
>
> Steve
>