On Sun, Jun 9, 2019, 15:38 Paul Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Jun 9, 2019 at 1:23 PM Nuno Caldeira <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> But what happens if the Foundation is taken over by people with >> commercial interests? >> >> - You still own the rights to any data you contribute, not the >> Foundation. In the new Contributor Terms, you license the Foundation to >> publish the data for others to use and ONLY under a free and open license >> >> > This got me thinking, particularly considering the license change a few > years ago and what a fiasco that was. What's protecting the map here? > What's to stop a prolific contributor from taking their ball and going > home, to the overall detriment of the map? > > To be clear, this *is not something I am going to to*. For the sake of > playing Devil's advocate, what is to stop me from, after nearly a decade, > taking my data and going home? This would leave a roughly 400 kilometer > wide hole centered in Tulsa, some serious breakage in metro Portland and > thousands of pockmarks around the world. If I were to pull out and take my > data with me, it would swiss cheese the map. >
What does "taking my data and going home" mean? You've already given OSMF a license to use the data you've contributed so far, so there wouldn't be any reason for OSMF to remove the data from a legal perspective. I suppose you could go around and delete the data you've contributed, but that would likely be considered vandalism and your changes reverted. >
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