i know being able to agree to the new CTs is a concern for some people, especially with sources which may have been used in only a small number of edits. one potential solution could be allowing each changeset to carry some relicensability information, as richard sets out below. there's a survey at the end so that we (LWG) can determine if this would be a useful feature or not, and i encourage everyone to have a think about it and have a go at the survey.
cheers, matt ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> Date: Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 4:38 PM Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] per changeset relicensing To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-t...@openstreetmap.org> There have been previous discussions regarding "per changeset relicensing". I'd like to know if developing the tools to allow per changeset relicensing is worthwhile. There will be some effort involved in the coding, so it would be good to know in advance if this option will be used by many or few mappers. The intent of per changeset relicensing is to permit those with a general agreement to the terms and license, but with a specific concern about a source for a particular changeset to relicense their data, but not relicense that data about which they are concerned. Example: Prof. Mapper maps by GPS and survey as she travels. She also helped a friend map in Erehwon, and added street names from Erehwon Council data. Erehwon council have given permission for derivation to OSM under CC-By-SA, but discussion is continuing re: CT/ODbL, Prof. Mapper agrees with CT/ODbL but recognizes that She doesn't have permission yet to relicense the Erehwon street names. Prof. Mapper could accept CT/ODbL for the bulk of her mapping, and mark the seven Erehwon changesets a with a checkbox for Do Not Relicense and with a note, "Pending Erehwon Council permission". This allows several options in the future. It points out datasets and mappers with interest in discussing relicensing with a specific data provider. Should Erehwon Council agree to ODbL prior to any change over date, the data can be included. If not, Prof. Mapper may continue with their unencumbered data. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/WFVK6XS _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
