[OSM-talk] Can I say "yes" to the ODbL if I can't account for 100%of my data?

David Groom reviews at pacific-rim.net
Thu Jun 16 00:50:24 BST 2011



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab at gmail.com>
To: "OpenStreetMap blather" <talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2011 12:06 AM
Subject: [OSM-talk] Can I say "yes" to the ODbL if I can't account for 
100%of my data?


> Back in 2006 I wrote the following when it still wasn't clear what the
> ODbL acceptance terms would be like:
>
> On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 22:10, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> If someone presents me with a boolean "Do you allow relicensing under
>> the ODbL" I'll have to say no because some of my edits are derived
>> from CC-BY-SA data I don't have permission to license (and I probably
>> can't even recall what all of it is).
>>
>> Which'll mean nuking >50% of all the data in Iceland most of which
>> I've touched at some point.
>
> I've been away for a while. But it seems to me from reading the terms
> that I can't say yes to them in good faith, not because I don't want
> to, but because I remember I derived a few things from external
> CC-BY-SA, and I can't now recall what they were (and this was before
> we had changeset comments).
>
> What are my options in that situation? Do I either have to see all my
> work removed because I can't account for 100% of my edits or lie on
> the ODbL acceptance form?
>
>
I am afraid that the only honest position you can take is to not agree to 
the CT's.  However, we don't yet know whether this will mean "all your work 
will be removed", because we don't yet know what will happen to the 
contributions of those users who have not agreed to the CT's

Regards

David 







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