On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Brian Quinion < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > Been reading all the discussions for a while with growing frustration. > I find my self mostly agreeing with the CC-By-SA license but I do > wish there was a way to easily provide exceptions to those > organisations wishing to make good use of the data but having problems > with the license. > > So my questions is this: would it be possible for the contributors to > OSM (in addition to releasing the data as CC-By-SA) to also grant a > license to the OSMF to use the data for ANY purpose? and to be able to > in turn also license the data on other projects / organisations by > unanimous vote? > > I'd be willing to trust the OSMF to only release the data under > license for suitable purposes. For instance they could license it to > npe with an explicit agreement that using it to geocode postcodes did > not constitute a derivative work. Or they could give definitive > interpretations of what was covered by CC-By-SA and back it up with > their own license agreement if there was ever a dispute. > > Is this just stupid, or is this an easy way out of the bind the > project now seems to find itself in? I guess it really comes down to > if people would be willing to trust OSMF... > At the recent election for the OSMF board there were 26 members who voted. It costs £15 to become a member. So it would cost about £500 to elect your own board. I wouldn't trust OSMF with my data. Etienne (OSMF Treasurer) > > -- > Brian > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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