[OSM-legal-talk] Multiple license declaration

TimSC mappinglists at sheerman-chase.org.uk
Sun Jun 26 16:38:17 BST 2011


Hi all,

I wanted to create a way for individual users to relicense their data 
under difference licenses. Since OSM and derivatives are OAuth capable, 
it is possible to authenticate a user and get them to agree to a 
license. This can be stored in a machine readable format. I hope this 
will be useful in transferring data between forks, particularly if a 
significant number of people chose permissive licenses. From what I can 
tell, most mappers pretty much agree to any license they are presented 
with. :)

http://timsc.dev.openstreetmap.org/extralicenses/

At this stage, I was hoping for ideas for improvements of the legal 
issues. Any thoughts?

TimSC




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