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

80n 80n80n at gmail.com
Sun Dec 6 13:55:45 GMT 2009


On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Dave Stubbs <osm.list at randomjunk.co.uk>wrote:

> >>
> >> as far as i can see the contributor terms definition says the same
> >> thing, except ...
> >
> > ...except the context is different.  With CC BY-SA you are giving
> everyone
> > the same rights.  With the Contributor Terms the only one to have those
> > rights is the OSMF.
> >
> >
>
> But only with the condition that they give everyone else those rights
> when publishing the data (via cc-by-sa or odbl). There's a slight
> change to attribution in that redirection which is just a
> formalisation of the current practice of attribution to OSM, and a
> wiki page for large contributors.
>
> The only extra right you give OSMF here, over and above everyone else,
> is the license change part -- and that can only be initiated by OSMF,
>

Yes, one of the major consequences is that OSMF gets to change the license.

If the value of OSM data ever gets very near the value of map data owned by
companies like Navteq and Teleatlas then OSMF becomes a very tempting
target.  The safeguards that have been put in place (a vote of the OSMF
membership and recent contributors) would be very easy to circumvent.

There's no safeguard, for example, that prevents the OSMF from changing the
Contributor Terms.  They can do that at any point in the future without any
kind of vote or other formality.  That's a pretty big hole in itself ....




> the rest has to go to a vote of the OSM contributors. With cc-by-sa
> you currently give this right to Creative Commons, who think we should
> be using CC0 for data anyway.
>
> Dave
>
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