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

Chris Browet cbro at semperpax.com
Thu Aug 19 13:56:03 BST 2010


>
> Then you don't want OSMF to be granted for rights on contributors
> contributions but you're perfectly OK if a compagny take OSM data and
> use it for a commercial product without sharealike or copyrights...
> So it seems you prefer a private compagny "stole" our works than a
> foundation (you can below to) represent the community ?
> It's a bit strange to me. But i suppose i do not undestand your point.
>
> My fear is that, by agreeing the CT, I would be delegating all rights to
OSMF, which would then be free to do anything with the main data without
consulting anybody.

A private company "stealing" would just be a copy, while OSMF would hold the
rights on the principal database in the ODbl case.
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