On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 1:14 AM, Jack Burton <j...@saosce.com.au> wrote: > On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 15:54 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: >> Australian Decliners, >> >> As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I >> kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is >> about to run out. > > I am a decliner, and contributed substantial amounts of data to the map > (mainly in Adelaide, Melbourne & Geelong) back in the early days of OSM > (late 2007 to mid 2009), although I haven't made any edits in almost 2 > years now (that's not OSM's fault -- I just haven't had the time > recently). > > Whilst I'd prefer that my old contributions remained in use by the > community, as originally intended, I still have reservations about the > open-ended relicensing provisions of the new CTs. > > I've just re-read the CTs, and must admit they do look less > objectionable to me now than when I first read them -- outside of the > future reclicensing provisions (clause 3), I don't have any problem with > them. > > Re those provisions, I still have one question, which I'm hoping someone > on the list can address. > > Clause 3 talks about "or such other free and open licence". I'm curious > as to how "free and open license" is defined in this context. > > Both the FSD and the OSD speak specifically to software, not data. In > the software world, there have been instances in the past of licenses > claiming to be "free" or "open source", without actually adhering to the > FSD or OSD. I suspect the same will be true in years to come with > respect to licensing of data. > > To agree to such a future relicensing provision, I think the parameters > around it would need to be fairly well defined (not so open-ended). In > the absence of a definition in the CTs themselves, that would mean a > well-recognised definition of "free and open license" (with respect to > data) existing somewhere else (like the FSD & OSD do in the software > domain). > > Can anyone point me to such a definition?
Sure. As listed in the terms, the Open Knowledge Foundation has their Open Knowledge Definition. http://opendefinition.org/okd/ Which takes an approach similar to FSD / OSD, but with attention to data, rather than software. http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
