[OSM-talk] Import guidelines proposal update

[Alex Barth]

On Sep 19, 2012, at 12:06 PM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> Pieren wrote:
>> I thought that such issue is not possible anymore with ODbl.
> 
> No, the Contributor Terms simply say "You are indicating that, as far as You
> know, You have the right to authorize OSMF to use and distribute those
> Contents under our current licence terms" (1a).
> 
> If the licence changes to one which is incompatible with the import, OSMF
> "may remove Your contributions from the Project" (1b)... and that rather
> requires being able to identify what these incompatible contributions are.

I am much in favor of clarifying this passage. It's not even clear what's compatible with ODbL means. We should flat out only allow data to be contributed that

- is your own
- someone else entrusted to you to be contributed (i. e. a public express permission to contribute someone else's data that is otherwise licensed differently)
- only requires attribution but is otherwise open (i.e.: no share-alike data). Public domain data would be a good example.

These are btw the principles I personally follow and that many mappers that I talk to recommend.

Everything else is grey area and potentially puts OSM into an extremely unflexible position in regards to future adjustments to licensing terms.

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> cheers
> Richard
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