[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Rob Myers]

On 09/17/2010 02:46 PM, David Groom wrote:
>
> In effect you are saying not to worry about the legal requirements in
> the CT's, but rather to rely upon the idea that in the future OSMF will
> behave in a certain way.

I am assuming that in the future OSMF will read the CTs and pause to 
think before breaking the terms of an agreement that is the only thing 
allowing them to use contributions.

> So your whole premise that its OK to add data which requires attribution
> on the basis the data will be removed if the attribution requirement is
> removed rests upon:
>
> a) the assumption that its OK to break the legal requirements of the
> CT's because of an implied assumption about how the OSMF will behave in
> the future

I don't understand this point, sorry.

> b) the assumption that all data which requires attribution will be
> tagged as such (and there is no requirement at present for it to do so,
> just good practice)
>
> c) the assumption that the attribution tag cant be changed.
>
> That seems a lot of assumptios to me.

Attribution will need some technical means of recording and representation.

I'm not assuming tags cannot be changed. That was an example. Better 
examples can clearly be found. :-)

- Rob.