[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms upgrade ready

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 09:30:36 GMT 2011


On 19 January 2011 02:10, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 15:48, Mike Collinson <mike at ayeltd.biz> wrote:
>> The links below show the wording we will formally release. I will confirm when it is done.  We will then set up and announce mechanism whereby anyone who has accepted the 1.0 terms can upgrade, this will be entirely optional.
>>
>> The wording drops one suggested change -  the addition of the phrase, "and to the extent that you are able to do so" or similar into clause (2) - we'd like to look at this one further as it has some potential side-effects as currently worded.
>
> With this new version, do you/others think it is OK for people who

So far all I've seen is contradicting information coming from people
pushing for this change, one will say yes, another will say no because
you have to give OSM-F the ability to change the license in future and
they can't do this unless the information is done so by a copyright
holder.



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