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

[Minh Nguyen]

Vào lúc 15:48 2022-11-28, Tobias Knerr đã viết:
> 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).

Could you clarify the "perhaps" here? If something has been explicitly 
dedicated to the public domain via CC0, a similar statement, or a 
relevant law, should it not survive any relicensing attempt? Or is this 
just about the editorial decision of whether to leave the table cell 
blank if relicensing is irrelevant for a given import? The wiki has a 
{{n/a}} template for this purpose.

I've already heard concerns from a couple U.S. mappers about this 
thread, because the community here been operating under the assumption 
that public domain datasets are the best-case scenario for inclusion in 
OSM. If a local government agency has already released something into 
the public domain, irrevocably and so forth, it would be 
counterproductive to send their legal department a scary-looking 
document to fill out. I don't know how I'd convince them that they have 
the legal authority to enter into an agreement governed by English law. 
Hopefully I'm overreacting.

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minh at nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us