[OSM-legal-talk] Rights granted to OSMF (Section 2 of the CT)

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Sun Apr 17 11:14:17 BST 2011


Bullshit, in the music industry you grant -exclusive- rights, the CTs 
stipulate the opposite.

Simon

Am 17.04.2011 12:06, schrieb ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen:
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>> FSF, owner of GCC, has copyright assignment. On the other hand, OSMF's
>> CT only has a rights grant (contributor still retains copyright on his
>> own data), which is the same thing as what ASF's agreement asks. So
>> this should be less problematic than the FSF situation.
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> That is like writing a song, and grant the rights to do with it what
> he wants to the publisher. You seen where that leads to in the music
> business.
> Same for OSM. The CT-phrase in particular must be copied from them.
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> Gert
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