[Osmf-talk] Funding of iD Development and Maintenance

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 05.08.20 11:26, Andy Allan wrote:
> Because OSMF simply cannot fail. It holds rights on the database that
> are not and cannot be available to any other organisation. It holds
> the copyrights and domains. It holds the user accounts. If something
> goes seriously wrong with OSMF, there is no way to recover

Can/should we take steps that would make it easier to recover from a
total failure of OSMF, instead of trying to ensure that OSMF never fails?

For example, regarding the holding of rights; each contributor has given
the OSMF certain rights through the contributor agreement but could the
OSMF pass these rights on to another organisation? The contributor
agreement does not say that the right is not transferable.

Perhaps the OSMF could concentrate on the "operative business" - having
members, collecting money, running servers, employing staff, etc. - and
there could be a nondescript charity somewhere that holds domain names,
trademarks, and database rights.

Or the other way round, possibly you meant that by "arms-length
organisations", that the OSMF becomes the nondescript charity that only
has a couple of trademarks and rights, and all the operative business is
run by the "OpenStreetMap Services Ltd." or whatever, which would be the
organisation that can fail without tearing down the project.

Bye
Frederik

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