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

[Rob Myers]

On 09/24/2010 01:04 PM, 80n wrote:
>
> I cannot grant you rights that I do not have.  I do not have the right
> to "do any act restricted by copyright" so I can't give it to you even
> if I wanted to.

Then it's unlikely that you can contribute BY-SA either, as BY-SA covers 
the copyright restricted acts of copying, modification, derivation, 
translation, and sublicencing.

> I'm beginning to think that many people, including members of the LWG it
> seems, do not comprehend this point.  There's certainly no guidance on
> this when the CTs are proffered.

The CTs state:

"You agree to only add Contents for which You are the copyright holder"

Which seems fairly clear to me.

> There must be quite a number of people
> who have signed up to the CTs erroneously already.

I doubt it. It's possible that some people simply haven't read them, but 
it's much less likely that someone with the experience to have signed 
their rights away lacks the experience to read the CTs.

- Rob.