Some people have problems with section 2 of the proposed CT because of granting of rights to OSMF.
Section 2 of CT 1.2.4[1]: "[...] You hereby grant to OSMF a worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable licence to do any act that is restricted by copyright, database right or any related right over anything within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other. [...]" But to reiterate a point I raised before, this is not a new thing in Free/Open projects: Apache Software Foundation Contributor License Agreement[2]: "[...] You hereby grant to the [Apache Software] Foundation and to recipients of software distributed by the Foundation a perpetual, worldwide, non-exclusive, no-charge, royalty-free, irrevocable copyright license to reproduce, prepare derivative works of, publicly display, publicly perform, sublicense, and distribute Your Contributions and such derivative works. [...]" Clearly this is not that big a problem for Apache contributors, why should it be a big problem for OSM contributors (setting aside the desire to import other data for which the contributor has no right to sublicense)? [1] http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms [2] http://www.apache.org/licenses/icla.txt _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
