[Osmf-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

Jochen Topf jochen at remote.org
Wed May 12 16:42:05 UTC 2010


On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 04:28:50PM +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote:
>
>> This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If
>> somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't
>> think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the possibility of that
>> happening. The whole point of the license is to give *nobody* a way to make
>> the once open data not open anymore. With the IMDB and the CDDB we have two
>> examples where this exact thing went bad. Not somebody coming from the outside
>> taking the data and making it proprietary, but somebody from the inside.
>
> Did you read the next paragraph which constrains what they can do with it?
>
> Yes, it is a bit weird to say "we'll have everything" and then in the  
> next paragraph "but we'll only do this with it".

Yes, more than a bit weird. Either you need this "we can do everything" in
paragraph 2 for some reason, than it sort of conflicts with paragraph 3. Or
you don't, in which case it shouldn't be there. Hard to tell in all this
legalese. Thats why I was asking for clarification.

Jochen
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