[OSM-legal-talk] Updated geocoding community guideline proposal

[Paul Norman]

On 7/28/2014 6:31 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 07/28/2014 12:07 PM, Tadeusz Knapik wrote:
>> >What I'm not clear is if "community
>> >guidelines" are strong enough to able to change it without touching the
>> >license itself
> There's a couple sides to this.
>
> OSMF is limited to distributing the data under ODbL or CC-By-SA as per
> the contributor terms; using any other license would require a license
> change process as outlined in the contributor terms.
It's also important to remember that there is also a significant amount 
of third-party data in OSM under the ODbL or compatible licenses, and 
the OSMF's guidelines are of limited influence there. This is one reason 
why I was particularly concerned when companies were failing to meet 
ODbL attribution requirements[1], as it wasn't just OSM contributor 
rights which were being infringed, but also the third party rights.

[1]: 
http://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Board_Meeting_Minutes_2013-12-10#6._Attribution