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

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Thu Aug 19 14:17:14 BST 2010


On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Grant Slater
<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
> Have there ever been any legal actions against OSMF?

Why does the OSMF want to take legal responsibility for the actions of
people who are not members of OSMF?

The OSM Foundation represents about 200 people or so.  The OpenStreetMap
project comprises some 30,000 or more active contributors.



> >>
> >> 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
>
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