[OSM-legal-talk] Community Guidelines - Horizontal Cuts better text

[Michael Collinson]

Thanks to all have responded specifically or generally on our community 
guidelines draft. I have been able to make a number of small changes 
which tighten and clarify without changing intent.

I have made one large edit by replacing my original horizontal cuts text 
with some that I believe is better [1]. We (LWG) want to make it very 
clear that if a map is made with different layers, folks can't just 
arrange the layers artificially to weasel out of data share-alike 
obligations. I think the new text says that very clearly and in a manner 
better matching the concepts of derivative and collective database data 
sources. However, it does come from a suggestion by a commercial 
company, so for transparency I declare that and invite any comments.

If there are no controversies by the end of the week, we'll begin the 
next step [2] which is for the Foundation to endorse the text as being a 
reasonable community consensus and transfer it to the osmfoundation.org. 
As a check-and-balance, that endorsement will be done by the board not 
by the License Working Group.


Mike

[1] 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Horizontal_Layers_-_Guideline
[2] 
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Community_Guidelines/How_We_Create_Community_Guidelines