[OSM-legal-talk] License for diary content

[Clifford Snow]

On Thu, Jul 21, 2022 at 10:25 AM Simon Poole <simon at poole.ch> wrote:

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> On 21 July 2022 18:32:34 CEST, Martijn van Exel <m at rtijn.org> wrote:
> >... So where does the diary entry content fall?
>
> Outside.
>
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> Seriously, it isn't clear at all. While you could maybe argue that diary
> content prior to the introduction of the contributor terms was (and
> remains) distributable on CC BY SA 2.0 terms, I believe the only reasonably
> safe way to proceed if you are interested in redistributing diary content
> is to ask the author in question for permission.
>

Could we do something similar when we switched to ODbL by asking the users
to agree to CC by SA 2.0? Obviously there will be a large number that never
respond. But hopefully we can get the active contributors to agree.

I would also be good to explicitly include diary entries as part of the
Contributor Terms going forward. Is something similar needed for notes?

Clifford

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