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

[SteveC]

On Dec 5, 2009, at 8:25 PM, 80n 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.

I think matt killed this.

Yours &c.

Steve