[OSM-talk] New site about the license change

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Tue Nov 16 09:44:57 GMT 2010


On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:20 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> If someone was to approach OSM and say they were using OSM data in their
> project, but their projects licence was changing and therefore they'd
> like OSM to relicence our data under some licence theyve created for
> their own project, what would our reply be?  Would we change our OSM
> licence?  Should we expect all the agencies and groups who have given us
> data, to change their licences to accomodate us?

Exactly , that is the reason why we have been complaining. And the new
license is more than that, see the contributor terms. it is a blank
check that you will accept all license changes in the future whatever
they may be.

-- 
James Michael DuPont
Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania
flossk.org flossal.org



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