[OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Thu Dec 17 17:32:34 GMT 2009


On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 11:41 AM, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 2:10 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 7:15 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>wrote:
>>
>>> The quality of OpenStreetMap's work speaks for itself, but it seems that
>>> we need to speak about it too - especially now that Google is attempting
>>> to to appear as holding the moral high ground by using terms such as
>>> "citizen cartographer" that they rob of its meaning by conveniently
>>> forgetting to mention the license under which the contributed data is
>>> held.
>>
>>
>> "By submitting User Submissions to the Service, you give Google a
>> perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license
>> to reproduce, adapt, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform, publicly
>> display, distribute, and create derivative works of the User Submission. "
>>
>
> Compared to:
> "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."
>

There's a big difference between giving rights only to Google and giving
them to everyone.  And the text you quote is only "Draft 0.9".  Considering
that it's tantamount to requiring everyone to declare their contributions as
public domain, I find it hard to imagine it'll be adopted.
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