[OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

[Grant Slater]

On 19 August 2010 12:18, Chris Browet <cbro at semperpax.com> wrote:

> It might very well be true.
>
> I still think "a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual,<snip> free.
>
> Basically, the OSMF asks us to trust it because it doesn't trust us, right?

No. The OSMF is protecting itself from being shut down by legal
action. The contributor terms also protect the contributors from legal
action against them.

>>
>> OSMF is just a legal entity to do things. OSMF is the project.
>
> There are people behind. I was a part of the OSM project as soon as I
> contributed and I am not part of OSMF. Those are thus 2 different things.
>

You access OSMF paid for resources (hardware), domains, OSMF
negotiated legal agreements (eg: aerial imagery) and OSMF negotiated
hosting contracts etc and likely in future OSMF paid staff who manage
things like servers and agreements. So no, they are not 2 different
things.

Regards
 Grant