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

Jukka Rahkonen jukka.rahkonen at latuviitta.fi
Tue Nov 26 21:25:18 UTC 2013


Jonathan Harley <jon at ...> writes:

> 
> On 23/11/13 10:45, Simone Cortesi wrote:
> > On Sat, Nov 23, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Paul Norman <penorman at ...> 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.

I feel that OSMF is more than just a publisher of the database because we
all have granted OSMF 
" a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence
to do any act that is restricted by copyright, database right or any related
right over anything within the Contents, whether in the original medium or
any other. These rights explicitly include commercial use, and do not
exclude any field of endeavour. These rights include, without limitation,
the right to sub-license the work through multiple tiers of sub-licensees
and to sue for any copyright violation directly connected with OSMF's rights
under these terms. To the extent allowable under applicable local laws and
copyright conventions, You also waive and/or agree not to assert against
OSMF or its licensees any moral rights that You may have in the Contents".
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms


-Jukka Rahkonen-

 
> Jonathan.
> 







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