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

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On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Jukka Rahkonen <jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi
> wrote:

> Ed Avis <eda at ...> writes:
>
> > What I meant to say was: under these contributor terms, OSM is not
> compatible
> > with itself!  Although the OSM project licenses its data under CC-BY-SA
> > or under ODbL, it would not accept such licences from others.
> >
> > Whether this really matters, or is just an obscure point of principle, is
> open
> > to debate.  But it's certainly the case.
>
> It is hard to believe that we want to build such a system but if that is
> the case then it will matter once someone takes some OSM data and lets own
> users to do updates and inserts. Isn't for example OpenAddresses such a
> project?
>


Yes, the automatic right to re-incorporate changes/additions made in
produced works is a major flaw in the whole proposal.
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