Olaf, Thanks, it looks like the clean text has been copied from a source other than the diff-marked text. I've deleted it. We are meeting tonight and I'll stop it going live until we double-checked the rest of the text too.
Regarding your main concern in http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-November/005256.html, Yes the OSMF could produce a new set of Contributor Terms but No it could not force you or other existing contributor to accept them. The more existing contributors there are, the stronger it gets. We deliberately missed out those words that you see on many commercial sites along the lines of "you hereby accept these terms and any future update of those terms as published by Acme Corp. from time to time." So the 2/3 majority sticks. The constraint for the OSMF to ask active contributors also sticks as does the constraint to only use a free and open license ... so we believe we've got a very effective anti-hijacking system in place. Mike At 06:00 PM 18/01/2011, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote: >Hi Mike, > >on December 5, you wrote an email to this list that the words "and any party >that receives Your Contents" in section 2 were only added because of a cock-up >and you promised to investigate. Now they are in the final text as well, but >not marked as such in the diff marked version. > >The effect of these additional words is that all content becomes available to >everyone without any limitation whatsoever, i.e. it makes all contributions >effectively public domain. > >Can you confirm that this is the only undocumented change, that it was a >mistake, and that it will be corrected before going live? > >I would also like to give you feedback on the new CT. They are improved over >the old version, but they still do not address my main concern that I >described in the second half of an email I sent in November: >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-November/005256.html > >Olaf _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
