[OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

[Peter Wendorff]

I agree that it's unlikely to drop the share-alike clause in future.
But nevertheless there may be another license, and this has to be
possible even for imports.

In fact, third data sources must agree to be published under ODBL (as
that's the current license) and the owner has in fact to agree with the
Contributor terms, which includes the relicensing term as stated there.

It's not the importing osm user alone who has to agree to the CT, but
the vendor of the imported data as well. If they do, import can be done.
If not, then not.

The contributor terms basically state that anyone who agrees is aware of
and allows the data imported to osm to be relicensed later under some
conditions to any license that fulfills some other conditions.

This IMHO (but I am not a lawyer) includes CC-0 and PD, and as far as I
know includes licenses requiring attribution - with the waiver that
attribution for each contributor may be given indirectly by linking to
the general osm copyright page. It may not include any license with any
additional restrictions.

CC-BY as such allows the licensor to define how attribution must be
given, so it may be okay for imports - or not.
CC-BY-SA without modifications is not okay as the share-alike does not
include any other license (sometimes apart from later versions of
cc-by-sa itself).

regards
Peter

Am 16.05.2014 10:22, schrieb Pieren:
> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 7:57 AM, Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org> wrote:
> 
>> We are not going to comply with hypothetical licenses that may or may
>> not appear in the future.
> 
> +1
> We already get feedbacks from contributors refusing to change the
> "share-alike" condition. And I cannot imagine that OSM will forbid
> external sources fully compatible with the current licence just for
> the hypothetical case of a possible licence change in the future.
> Or try to change the licence now. It would be interesting to see if
> you will find 2 third of active contributors accepting to remove the
> share-alike attribution.
> Or in a similar way you consider imports and by honesty, inform the
> current contributors that if they don't accept to remove the
> share-alike in the future, they should stop now.
> 
> Pieren
> 
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