[OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment (was: Re: Phase 4 and what it means)

2011-06-06 Thread David Ellams
I have no intention of getting into a debate about whether ODBL is the best licence for OSM data here. However, I do feel the need to correct one very important factual point regarding the Contributor Terms. On Mon, 06 Jun 2011 06:20 +0200, Mike Dupont jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: This

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment (was: Re: Phase 4 and what it means)

2011-06-06 Thread Mike Dupont
The people are not being asked to agree to a license in general, but to give up an allow the board to tweak the license for them. What is upsetting for me is that there is no porting process like with creative commons, and any leverage one might have will be lost when you agree to the CT. OK, you