[OSM-talk] OSMF: The people you are going to hand over your OSM data ...

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Sun Dec 6 04:01:12 GMT 2009



Yours &c.

Steve

On Dec 5, 2009, at 20:25, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 5, 2009, at 4:25 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> > Remember: Steve is the head of the OSMF, so this is the OSMF  
> Chairman's
> > position about other peoples opinions when they don't share his  
> own opinion.
>
> I'm not allowed to have opinions?
>
> > Is this the organization you want to hand over the license of your  
> OSM data?
>
> The OSMF wont own the data and you know it.
>
> The Contributor Terms contains the following clause:  "You hereby  
> grant to OSMF and any party that receives Your Contents a worldwide,  
> royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable license to do  
> any act that is restricted by copyright over anything within the  
> Contents, whether in the original medium or any other."
>
> That's pretty much as close as you can get to owning a piece of data.

If you didn't delete matts edits on the wiki or tried listening to him  
we could explain why you're wrong.


>
>
> Yours &c.
>
> Steve
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