On 12 December 2017 at 21:31, Peter Barth <[email protected]> wrote: > you kind of ask them to accept the CT. I.e. neither asking for our > specific license in use nor for a copyright reassignment. It's kind of > asking for a "special license" to allow everything in scope of our CTs.
Firstly, I'd like to point out that this argument disagrees with what is stated in the import guidelines on the wiki [1], and if this is actually the case then it should be changed to clarify matters, ideally by the LWG. The Contributor Terms are still a license, but they are are a particularly broad one. Legally, they are not much different to a public domain license. I expect lawyers for the companies which control such data might be a bit concerned about committing to such a broad license, especially one which doesn't have a wide adoption. Based on the import guidelines, the implication appears to be that the very broad license in the Contributor Terms does not apply if you're importing data which is licensed compatibly with the ODbL. This isn't clear though. That's not really my point though. My point is that there is a huge amount of data already in OSM which is either imported from ODbL-only sources, or could reasonably be argued to be a derivative work of such sources. I am primarily thinking of the AND Netherlands data here [2], although there are others. If the OSMF realistically expects to be able to invoke the license-change clause in the future, I assume they have a good plan to expunge all of that data from OSM. So adding a little bit more (especially a well-documented, limited import of building heights) is not going to be a problem. My impression, though, is that OSM is so intertwined with ODbL-only licensed data that it's not going to be feasible to alter the license without entirely wiping entire geographical areas. Cheers, [1] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Guidelines#Step_3_-_License_approval [2] https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/AND_Data -- Russ Garrett [email protected] _______________________________________________ Imports mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports
