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

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Sat Apr 16 17:00:35 BST 2011


Hi,

On 04/16/2011 05:40 PM, Graham Jones wrote:
> I am also surprised that we are going to the compulsory re-licensing
> when there are still (as far as I can tell without looking too closely)
> doubts over the compatibility of significant datasources with the new
> licence or contributor terms - From what I can tell from a few wiki
> pages, it is not clear whether OS Opendata in the UK, or Nearmap in
> Austrailia is compatible.   I would have expected these issues to be
> resolved before forcing people to re-licence.

Isn't it funny how, just over a year ago, we couldn't care less about 
anything the Ordnace Survey did, and suddenly we are a project that must 
choose their license according to what is compatible with OS?

> If these issues have been resolved, and there is a mechanism for
> deciding what level of data loss is acceptable, then I will happily
> re-licence my own data, but I am looking for some reassurance before I
> do so.

I say to you the same I said to Ian - even if OSMF would publish what 
mechanism they plan to use (and I'm pretty sure they don't have one 
yet), then that mechanism would not become part of the contract and it 
could be changed at any later time, say, after majorities in the OSMF 
board have changed after the next election or something.

I'm sorry but I think you can either trust people to do the right thing 
or not trust them, but nobody will give you a written statement (or if 
they do it won't be worth much).

Bye
Frederik



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