[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-dev] To OSM editor authors

[John Smith]

On 8 April 2011 07:30, {withheld} <Pheasant.Coucal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Very naughty thought. I wonder what the reaction would be to a simple,
> formal request to OSMF to re-grant you your rights to OSM data along the
> same alignments on the basis OSM is backing up an effective copy of your
> lost data?

That isn't needed since at no point under the new or old CT do you
sign your copyright away, previously/currently for some you agreed to
allow OSM-F to publish your work under cc-by-sa, and possibly in
future you agree to allow OSM-F to be able to license a copy of your
data as they see fit. In both cases you still own the copyright, but
of course in future you have to deal with more than just copyright and
so that would become a lot less clear if you could do what you want
with your own submissions if you attempt to extract them from the
database.