[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] ODbL vs CC-by-SA pros and cons

Robert Kaiser kairo at kairo.at
Wed Sep 1 14:42:42 BST 2010


Francis Davey schrieb:
> Agreeing with the person you assign to that they will only use the
> copyright in certain ways won't protect you against a subsequent
> assignee of the copyright (eg OSMF assigns to XXX Ltd), subject to
> certain exceptions.

While that may be true, anyone not trusting the organization that 
operates all of the software and hardware of the project (the OSMF in 
our case) should not have contributed any data to the project as a whole 
in the first place.

Robert Kaiser




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