[Talk-us] Fwd: [OSM-talk] New users have to sign up to the ODbL

[Peter Batty]

Well summarized Richard!

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 9:39 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:

> Dear All,
> Here is an announcement from Steve Coast regarding another step in the
> long, slow process of improving the OpenStreetMap data license.
>
> I've paraphrased [] one portion of his email where he originally had
> broken links.
>
> The license change is a good thing.  I'm looking forward to it being
> finished though, as it seems to have been going on for ever.  If you
> have not been previously aware of the license change, my summary is
> this.
>
> 1) ccbysa is a great license for creative works and a great concept for
> data
> 2) but Creative Commons told us that ccbysa is not intended for data
> after we started using it
> 3) Open Knowledge Foundation created the ODbL to be both for data, and
> identical to ccbysa in concept
> 4) volunteers from OSM have been going through the steps to transition
> to a new license for some time now
>
> Some folks don't like some aspects of the proposed license.  They are
> participating in the license process and will be free to not adopt the
> new license.  Some folks are tired of what seems like periodic,
> tedious discussion of arcane legal gobbledygook.  They are free to
> learn as much or little about the issues and participate in the degree
> they choose.
>
> If you've not heard of the license change before, I recommend this
> highly simplified process.  It should take less than five minutes:
>
> 1) have a look at the ccbysa summary
> http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/
> 2) have a look at the ODbL summary
> http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
> 3) decide that the licenses are close enough for you,
> 4) when the license change process asks you to accept the ODbL in a
> few weeks or months, agree to do so.
> 5) and keep mapping.
>
> And if you can't just accept that the licenses are close enough for
> you, based on the summaries, follow the links below for more details
> and discussion.  But that will extend beyond the five minute process
> above.  ;-)
>
> Best regards,
> Richard
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
> Date: Wed, May 12, 2010 at 10:47 AM
> Subject: [OSM-talk] New users have to sign up to the ODbL
> To: post at opengeodata.posterous.com, openstreetmap Mailing List
> <talk at openstreetmap.org>, osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
>
>
> After several thousand man years of effort by the License Working
> Group and a bit of help by TomH, the new contributor terms and license
> are up and to be agreed to by new users.
>
> [Signing up for OSM now presents you with a contributor agreement,
>
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms]
>
> where essentially you are signing up to the existing CCBYSA plus the
> ODbL (Open Database License).
>
> This is one step along the long path to moving to the ODbL. For all
> your fun ODbL needs, check out the wiki page:
>
>        http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/ODbL
>
> Why is this step being taken? Basically, it bounds the problem of
> moving to a license which actually protects and clarifies the uses of
> OSMs data. Otherwise, the number of people who have to move grows
> every day. From now on, it is a bounded problem of only the users
> before today. Several further steps will need to be taken to actually
> move to the ODbL.
>
> I'd like to thank all those involved in the ODbL and the LWG for all
> their hard work over the last two or so years in making this small
> step happen.
>
> And, remember, if you have any concerns or objections then they've
> likely already to have been discussed at the above wiki page(s), or
> you're welcome to be involved with the change process by joining the
> legal mailing list and/or joining the LWG calls.
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