[OSM-talk] License

[Robert (Jamie) Munro]

Please can we let NPEmaps use OSM as a background for selecting
postcodes? Currently, they want their postcodes to be public domain, and
are afraid that by using our maps, the postcodes become CC-by-sa. We
need to stop this silliness ASAP.

What will it take to get the license changed?

Can we change the T&Cs for editors on the web site right now so that all
new data has a "you give the foundation a non-exclusive license to do
whatever they want with your data. They promise, at a minimum, to make
it available under CC-by-NA, but may make it available under additional
licenses in future", then add a thing which gets existing users to agree
to this license change. Once we have most of the users agreed, we
reassess our position, try to track down missing users, then delete
their data if we can't find them. We'll soon be able to add the data back.

Robert (Jamie) Munro

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