[OSM-legal-talk] License review request: Sardinia ad-hoc authorization

[Jonathan Harley]

On 23/11/13 10:45, Simone Cortesi wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> The mentions of the OpenStreetMap Foundation in the document are
>> confusing, as to my knowledge no one from the OSMF is involved in or a
>> party to this agreement, but I don't think that alone would prevent the
>> use of data.
> I asked them to licence the data to OSMF, which is the copyright
> holder of the eponymous project.
>

It doesn't make a difference to this, but actually, the OSMF is the 
publisher of the database, not the copyright holder. Copyright of each 
contributor's contributions remains with that contributor. This is why 
the requested attribution is "© OpenStreetMap contributors" and not © OSMF.

You probably knew this, and this is just nit-picking, but this is the 
legal-talk list so we ought to be accurate.


Jonathan.

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