[OSM-talk-be] ODBL

[Renaud MICHEL]

On dimanche 25 septembre 2011 at 18:32, Gerard Vanderveken wrote :
> Actually, You are accepting both, and the new OdbL license for your 
> existing and future contributions,  and the new contributor terms, which 
> makes it easier to change the license again, if there is a reason to do
> so. For this change from CC-BY-SA to OdbL, everyone has to give its
> acceptance, for changing to another (that would be then the third)
> license a 2/3 majority is sufficient.
> There is no  license change from OdbL in the short future necessary or 
> foreseen, and so these contributor terms aren't strictly needed now, but 
> it is a good provision to be ready in a distant future for a 
> modernisation of the OdbL  license should it be needed, and then the 
> transition will be much smoother by this majority principle.

The current planet is still distributed under CC-By-SA only, but you are 
right that the CT already mention ODbL explicitly, so no new vote will be 
required for that change.

What I wanted to point at, is that the CT actually gives OSMF a wider right 
than simply relicensing under ODbL, we have implicitly accepted any future 
license that is proposed by OSMF and accepted by enough active mappers.
I think it is a good thing for the project (which is why I accepted them), 
but some people may not have the right to grant this if they have used some 
third party data.

-- 
Renaud Michel