[OSM-legal-talk] Signing of Contributor Terms
Hi All, Would it be possible to have someone sign the contributor terms rather than login to accept them? If I understand things correctly if I am talking to a data provider who has released their data ODbL they would still need to accept the contributor terms to allow the relicensing of the data at some point? Is this correct? To follow in the import guidelines better I think rather than having them login and dump the data into OSM it would be better to have a copy of the contributor terms to be signed for that data set. With governments giving them an actual physical document would likely be the easiest. Then the OpenStreetMap community could decide what to do with that data since it would be licensed appropriately and have contributor terms associated with it. Best, -Kate ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Signing of Contributor Terms
- Original Message - From: Kate Chapman k...@maploser.com To: Licensing and other legal discussions. legal-talk@openstreetmap.org Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 3:14 PM Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Signing of Contributor Terms Hi All, Would it be possible to have someone sign the contributor terms rather than login to accept them? If I understand things correctly if I am talking to a data provider who has released their data ODbL they would still need to accept the contributor terms to allow the relicensing of the data at some point? Is this correct? I don't think it is correct. Contributor terms relate, as the name suggests, to contributors. What you seem to be requiring is a more liberal form of the licence, for the initial data, than ODbL. If the data provider were to accept the CT's then that would apply for all edits made by that user directly into OSM. It does not have any impact of the licensability of data which they supply, but don't themselves enter into OSM. If you want other OSM contributors to be able to upload the data, and there to be no danger of that data having to be removed of OSM licence ever changes in the future, then the underlying data has to be in a CT compatible licence. I would have thought all that is necessary is for the data provider to agree to release the data to OSM contibutors under ODbl, CC-BY-SA 2.0, and any such other free and open licence as defined by OSM contibutor terms clase 3. David To follow in the import guidelines better I think rather than having them login and dump the data into OSM it would be better to have a copy of the contributor terms to be signed for that data set. With governments giving them an actual physical document would likely be the easiest. Then the OpenStreetMap community could decide what to do with that data since it would be licensed appropriately and have contributor terms associated with it. Best, -Kate ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Signing of Contributor Terms
David, On 04/16/2012 04:57 PM, David Groom wrote: I would have thought all that is necessary is for the data provider to agree to release the data to OSM contibutors under ODbl, CC-BY-SA 2.0, and any such other free and open licence as defined by OSM contibutor terms clase 3. The CT is basically: I have this data and I contribute it to OSM and I grant OSMF the right to distribute it under Apart from the rather specific wording Contents that You choose to submit to the Project in this user account at one point in the CT, it would be perfectly possible to interpret contribute to OSM in a wider sense - i.e. contribute not by starting JOSM and entering data, but contribute by shipping a CD-ROM to Kate or so. If, for a written statement, that one sentence were changed from Contents that You choose to submit to the Project in this user account to Contents as detailed in attachment A or something, then I guess that should be sufficient. The mapper who later uses the data thus released as part of his OSM editing activity can honestly say that his contribution does not infringe anyone else's copyright because the original owner already authorized OSMF to distribute their data. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09 E008°23'33 ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
