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

[Simon Poole]

Am 29.11.2022 um 03:57 schrieb 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 don't see a problem here,  PD works / data and CC0 licenced material 
do not restrict how you use them in any fashion so I don't see why any 
action would be required.
>
> 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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