Re: [OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements
On Wed, Oct 7, 2009 at 6:50 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Richard, Richard Weait wrote: Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive license contributes their data to OSM. Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data that originated from their source. Imagine then that they would like to incorporate those changes, with or without further vetting, back into their dataset under their license. I agree that this would be very desirable; however it would allow our sacred data to leave the protecting cage of ODbL and live on under a CC-BY-SA or, God forbid, a BSD license which would be unpalatable to many contributors. if they've got balls of steel, they could just claim that CC BY-SA doesn't apply to factual data and just take the current OSM data ;-) on a more serious note, this is very much like the Biba model. if we order licenses by property: BY-SA, BY, 0, then it follows a write-down, read-up model. in other words, even if we had a BSD type license, our data could be incorporated into BY-SA projects, but not into PD projects. the only way to become a universal donor also means rejecting non-PD imports. personally, i think that imports are bad, m'kay? so i'm not that bothered ;-) cheers, matt ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
[OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements
Dear legal-talk, I wonder if either cc-by-sa, or ODbL anticipate a reciprocal data agreement between OSM and another project with a different license? Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive license contributes their data to OSM. Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data that originated from their source. Imagine then that they would like to incorporate those changes, with or without further vetting, back into their dataset under their license. My understanding is this return of the data to the source would not be permitted, as is, with either license. I suggest that we do want to permit this sort of a reciprocal data agreement. Am I incorrect in my understanding of the licenses and would this be permitted already? Could a community guideline address this and permit it in the ODbL when and if adopted? Thoughts? Best regards, Richard ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] reciprocal data agreements
Richard, Richard Weait wrote: Imagine a data provider using perhaps cc-by, or a BSD style permissive license contributes their data to OSM. Imagine then that they would like to monitor changes in OSM to data that originated from their source. Imagine then that they would like to incorporate those changes, with or without further vetting, back into their dataset under their license. I agree that this would be very desirable; however it would allow our sacred data to leave the protecting cage of ODbL and live on under a CC-BY-SA or, God forbid, a BSD license which would be unpalatable to many contributors. Bye Frederik ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
