[OSM-talk] [OSM-legal-talk] License Change View on OSM Inspector

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 13 December 2011 22:03, Graham Jones <grahamjones139 en gmail.com> wrote:
> I agree, it sounds mad, and I find it hard to believe that 'we' would do
> this.   Surely we need to apply a bit of pragmatism to  this and think about
> 'reasonableness'?
>
> I can see that it is reasonable to delete the contributions from someone who
> has explicitly said that they do not agree to the new terms - that is a
> shame, but it is their choice.
>
> From the discussion on this list (and I have not looked into it properly - I
> gave up on thinking about licences when the 'debate' all got out of hand
> earlier in the year), it sounds as though if someone who has neither
> accepted nor declined the terms has touched an object, that object will be
> deleted - is this really the intention of those looking after this licence
> change?
>
> I see there are three potential reasons for someone neither accepting nor
> declining the terms:
>
> They really do not agree with them, but for some reason that I can not think
> of they decide not to click the 'decline' button - These are an awkward
> case, but it is up to them to make their intentions clear.
> They left the project having made their contribution and are now not
> contactable (changed email address etc.), or so un-interested that they do
> not respond.
> They could be really keen OSM contributors who have since died, so are not
> answering their emails.
>
> In my opinion, it would be reasonable to assume that the last two have the
> best interests of the project at heart and do not want to have their
> contributions deleted, so they should be retained.  If at some point they
> contact us to say that they object to their contributions being in the
> database, then yes, delete them, but leave them there until they do.

What's in the best interest of the project is very discussable.  My
personal opinion is that the change to the licensing model where a
single body is the licensor instead of every contributor, is not in
the project's interest and anything that helps this change isn't
either.

Cheers