I am pleased to announce that we went live today with new contributor terms, for NEW contributors and we already have contributors signed up. OpenStreetMap has NOT yet moved to the new license.
A copy of the terms can be viewed here, http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms . It has not changed since 3rd March. New contributors now agree to allow contributions to published and used under the Open Database License, ODbL 1.0, as well as the existing CC-BY-SA license during a transitional period. The terms are available in English, and, to comply with national law, in French and Italian. If you are the citizen of any other country that requires contracts to be in another specific language, do please let us know. We also welcome and will make available any informal translations to help new and existing contributors. OpenStreetMap has NOT yet moved to the new license. To do this, we need a critical mass of EXISTING contributors to agree to re-license existing contributions. We will start this process soon. I will avoid giving any specific dates as we continue to move ahead cautiously after allowing any reactions to be heard and discussed. Our goal however, is to be well into the process by the start of SOTM 2010 in July. As usual, any comments and questions to [email protected] will be gratefully received. I've revamped a page up at http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/About_The_License_Change to list the final set of legal and explanatory documents and give more information about current status. Mike License Working Group _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
