On 21 December 2011 at 14:21 Malcolm Scott <m...@lcolm.org.uk> wrote: > At 14:14 today, Richard Moss wrote: > > > If you can't be bothered with any of this and have given up with OSM, an > > alternative would be for you to give me your account. I don't particularly > > want to do that, but it's an option. > > Is that really a valid option? "Giving you his account" would not, I > believe, give you the copyright to any data he has contributed and so you > would not be in a position to legitimately relicense his data. > > (IANAL.) > > -- > Malcolm Scott >Interesting question. I saw the idea suggested somewhere on one of the OSM >talk lists (I think) but in the morass of discussion on this subject I can't >now put my finger on it. Perhaps "give me your account and copyright of the >data" would be safer wording? IANAL either and to be honest, I find all this dreary discussion of the nuances of international copyright law a complete turn-off. The sooner we get past 1 April the better. Richard
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