[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Wed Apr 13 01:34:51 BST 2011


On 13 April 2011 00:31, David Murn <davey en incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> If the CTs to be presented to the community are finally agreed upon,
> almost 12 months after the first people were asked to accept it, should
> those users who have previously accepted the licence, be contacted and
> be told that the final terms have been released, and they have the
> chance to read the latest revision and change their vote accordingly.
> Im not sure how legally binding it may be in some parts of the world,
> but Im fairly sure that most places in the world wont allow you to ask
> people to sign a contract then change the terms of that contract 100
> times without letting the other party to the contract choose to opt out.

The CT update just means that the contracts OSMF has with different
users may be different.  It doesn't mean that the OSMF has changed the
terms of an existing contract with any user, which they have no way to
do anyway.

Cheers



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