On 17 April 2011 12:09, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I asked a similar question in > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-August/004270.html > and the answer (which I can't find now) from Frederik and others is > that most likely "your contribution" in this case equals to only the > *modification* of the original data. So you're granting OSM a license > on your modification of the original data, and not the exact contents > of the XML document being uploaded. >
If I have understood the question correctly - and I am not clear on the technical details (*) - then I think this must be right. The CT's aren't particularly clear on this point, but I am fairly confident a court would understand: <<Thank you for your interest in contributing data and/or any other content (collectively, “Contents”) to the geo-database of the OpenStreetMap project (the “Project”).>>> to mean by "contributing data", that data which will change OSMF's database. Since anything which is uploaded that is already their cannot be properly understood as a "contribution". The context in which OSMF operates suggests this is the intention of the terms as well. (*) Not that I can't understand them - I may be a lawyer but I have some technical competence - just that I don't know how they work specifically. I've fiddled with OSMF a bit, but don't know all the ways in which one could download and edit information and what implications that could have for the database. I am assuming that there is a usual way of working which involves a download of parts of the OSMF database, editing that downloaded data structure and then uploading so that the changes made change the OSMF database. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
