[OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 18 July 2010 12:31, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK the majority of data currently in OSM in Poland comes from that
>> other project, which still has lots more contributors than OSM here.
>
> Is it totally hopeless to contact these contributors and ask them for their
> agreement?

That's kind of what I'd like to do when we know exactly what we want
them to agree to.  Currently we don't.

However my current thinking is for these contributors to be able to
opt out, rather than opt in.  I know that is not legally the right way
to do it, but since this whole situation is legally blurred and I'd
feel morally okay that way, I can probably take the risk of somebody
getting upset on me.

Technically I can't contact all of the authors because the project I
talked about takes anonymous contributions through their bugzilla, and
even if it didn't, they don't have per-object history, their
repository is a CVS of text files with 9 years of commit history.  We
also know they had some amount of imports but documentation is scarce
(mostly in the form or forums).

Cheers