[OSM-legal-talk] UK mapping authority switches to Open Government Licence

[John Smith]

On 8 January 2011 03:12, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Version 1.2.3 of the Contributor Terms state "You are indicating that, as
> far as You know, You have the right to authorize OSMF to use and distribute
> those Contents under our _current_ licence terms" (my emphasis). They also
> only require that you grant rights to OSMF "to the extent that you are able
> to do so", so the fact that you can't grant rights over and above those
> required by ODbL is not a problem.

Erm doesn't that invalidate the "flexibility" or relicense in future
people keep going on about?