On 17 April 2011 13:12, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <[email protected]> wrote: >>You do realize that you already have an agreement with the OSMF? > > Will you sent me a copy ? > OSMF did not even exist when I signed up, so I doubt if there is > another agreement then a single sided. > And I still doubt that OSMF is representing the community > in a way there statutes say. >
A copyright (or other IP) licence doesn't have to be written down for it to be legally effective. If you uploaded any data to OSM (before or after OSMF came into existence) an objective observer would assume that you intended it to be used as part of OSM and that you were permitting its use even if you owned intellectual property rights in the data you contributed. In other words, whether you realised it or not, you did grant some kind of a licence. What is more, every time you upload data the same is true: some kind of licence will be implied even if you never signed anything. What the status and extent of the licence was and is will not be an entirely easy question to answer. The community has changed over time and community norms or rules are likely to be relevant to the kind of licence you gave at the beginning. Before OSMF existed you cannot have been giving them a licence (obviously) but you must have been giving some kind of permission. Now a useful question is: what kind of permission are you happy to give for the use of the data you upload? You must hope that someone will be able to use it otherwise you wouldn't be contributing it. Whether OSMF "represents" the community isn't really a legal question I suspect so not relevant here. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
