[Talk-us] What's protecting the map?

[Steve Friedl]

One who wanted to take his datal and go home would have to present/manufacture evidence that the data was taken from a source with a closed/incompatible license.

 

 

 

From: Ian Dees <ian.dees at gmail.com> 
Sent: Sunday, June 9, 2019 12:45 PM
To: Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org>
Cc: talk-us at openstreetmap.org Openstreetmap <Talk-us at openstreetmap.org>
Subject: Re: [Talk-us] What's protecting the map?

 

 

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 15:38 Paul Johnson <baloo at ursamundi.org <mailto:baloo at ursamundi.org> > wrote:

 

 

On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:23 PM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com <mailto:nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com> > wrote:

But what happens if the Foundation is taken over by people with commercial interests? 

*	You still own the rights to any data you contribute, not the Foundation. In the new Contributor Terms, you license the Foundation to publish the data for others to use and ONLY under a free and open license

 

This got me thinking, particularly considering the license change a few years ago and what a fiasco that was.  What's protecting the map here?  What's to stop a prolific contributor from taking their ball and going home, to the overall detriment of the map?

 

To be clear, this is not something I am going to to.  For the sake of playing Devil's advocate, what is to stop me from, after nearly a decade, taking my data and going home?  This would leave a roughly 400 kilometer wide hole centered in Tulsa, some serious breakage in metro Portland and thousands of pockmarks around the world.  If I were to pull out and take my data with me, it would swiss cheese the map.

 

What does "taking my data and going home" mean? You've already given OSMF a license to use the data you've contributed so far, so there wouldn't be any reason for OSMF to remove the data from a legal perspective. I suppose you could go around and delete the data you've contributed, but that would likely be considered vandalism and your changes reverted. 

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