[OSM-talk] Contributor Terms

Julio Costa Zambelli julio.costa at openstreetmap.cl
Thu Aug 12 15:20:09 BST 2010


Thank you Frederik.

That is our exact case. All of the suburban highways data was imported
with two personal accounts (long time ago, with no knowledge of the
best practices for those kind of processes).

Do you know who will be managing this inside the Foundation?

Best Regards,

Julio Costa

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Julio,
>
> Julio Costa Zambelli wrote:
>>
>> Do you know what will happen if I do not agree with the CT permanently?
>
> In the long run there will be generally no room in OSM for data which has
> not been added under CT.
>
> It is possible for OSMF to make exceptions for individual cases, e.g. if you
> have used your account to import a lot of data which comes under a license
> that is ODbL compatible but not CT compatible then it is possible that OSMF
> makes a special deal with you.
>
> OSMF will be interested in keeping the number of such "special deals" low
> for two reasons:
>
> 1. Every one creates a lot of work to negotiate and set up.
>
> 2. Data which is in OSM based on such "deals" is a liability if OSMF ever
> wanted to do another license change. If that happens, data under such
> "deals" would have to be individually re-negotiated, again causing a lot of
> work, and there would be a potential data loss in the future.
>
> I'm not saying it can't be done; I am pretty sure it will be done for 2 or 3
> or 10 cases worldwide.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>



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