Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licansing and CT 1.1

2010-10-05 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Ed Avis e...@... writes: Perhaps there should be a meta-contributor-terms where you agree to accept future contributor terms proposed by the OSMF. Then there wouldn't be the need to re-ask everybody each time the contributor terms change. Insurance companies would love this idea :)

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Avis
andrzej zaborowski balr...@... writes: To answer Steve's question: yes, neither CC-By-SA nor ODbL nor CC-By-SA and ODbL dual-license are compatible with the current contributor terms. Or, in other words, OSM itself is not compatible with them. -- Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

2010-10-05 Thread Grant Slater
On 5 October 2010 08:28, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: andrzej zaborowski balr...@... writes: To answer Steve's question: yes, neither CC-By-SA nor ODbL nor CC-By-SA and ODbL dual-license are compatible with the current contributor terms. Or, in other words, OSM itself is not compatible

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

2010-10-05 Thread Ed Avis
Grant Slater openstreet...@... writes: neither CC-By-SA nor ODbL nor CC-By-SA and ODbL dual-license are compatible with the current contributor terms. Or, in other words, OSM itself is not compatible with them. Automatic presumed compatibility no. Receiving permission from restrictive data

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata amp; the new license

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Collinson
To come back on topic, I don't think this has made legal-talk yet. Thanks to Jordan Hatcher, whose mail I am re-working: The new UK Open Government Licence is now out: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/open-government-licence.htm

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Voluntary re-licansing and CT 1.1

2010-10-05 Thread Mike Collinson
At 09:03 AM 5/10/2010, Jukka Rahkonen wrote: Ed Avis e...@... writes: Perhaps there should be a meta-contributor-terms where you agree to accept future contributor terms proposed by the OSMF. Then there wouldn't be the need to re-ask everybody each time the contributor terms change.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...

2010-10-05 Thread Steve Bennett
On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 3:28 AM, Mike Collinson m...@ayeltd.biz wrote: A CC-BY-SA license *is* an explicit permission to you by the rights holder.   So that is not a problem and we will revise the CTs to better communicate that in plain language. What I was getting at: 1) The CTs require that