[OSM-talk] FYI: Board now requires imports list (in)compatibility with OSM CT (& will work on a template)

[Tobias Knerr]

On 28.11.22 at Simon Poole wrote:
> What is "OSM Contributor Terms compatibility" supposed to be?

Ok, this is clearly imprecise wording.¹

The context is that we would like to offer data donors a standard legal 
text that they can use to make their data available to OSM in such a way 
that we would expect it to survive a hypothetical license change. And 
yes, this would perhaps look similar to a CC0 waiver, except that it 
could potentially be a bit more limited (in a similar way the CT limits 
the set of licenses under which the OSMF can choose to publish the 
database).

So the column would be mostly about whether this legal text or something 
equivalent has been signed or not (+ perhaps public domain/CC0 data that 
has the ability to survive a license change by default could also check 
the box).

Tobias

¹ The wording is my fault and, iirc, was inspired by the column name at 
https://wiki.osm.org/Import/ODbL_Compatibility