[OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license

[David Groom]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "M?rtin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdreist at gmail.com>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license


>
> reading the legal FAQ for the license change:
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ
>
> there is a paragraph that looks strange to me:
>
> "... - we may take the view that those who have made small
> contributions, but cannot be contacted, would relicence their data
> under the new licence. We will enable them to contact us at a later
> date."
>
> this part looks like a problem to me, as it is opt-out instead of the
> always proclaimed opt-in, or have I misunderstood this? Or is this
> refering to anonymous edits only?
>

Unfortunately the wiki seems to offer conflicting views on what might 
happen.

The section you quoted [1] does indeed seem to indicate that contributions 
from some people who have not responded will be left in the database.

However further up the same page [2] it says " remove any data from any 
users who do not respond or respond negatively (the hard bit) ", and again 
here [3] it says "What do we do with the people who have Declined or not 
responded? Their contributions would not be available under the future ODbL 
version of the database. "

David

> cheers,
> Martin
[1] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ#What_happens_if_not_everyone_agrees.3F
[2] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ#How_will_the_switch_take_place.3F
[3] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_4_-_CC-BY-SA_edits_no_longer_accepted._.28Phase_3_.2B_8_weeks_subject_to_critical_mass.29