On 19.08.2010 12:24, Grant Slater wrote:
On 19 August 2010 11:07, Valent Turkovic<[email protected]> wrote:
AFAIK with new Contributor Terms [1] all data entered into OSM can be
taken by some company, closed and they could create a product made profit
on it.
Yes or no? Please just answer this for start.
No, they have to make the data available. The data is share-alike.
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/
Nope, they don't have to. Only if they use it as one database. If they
use it to publish maps, or create a product that afterwards uses two
databases seperately, they don't have to publish their own data under Odbl.
This has some positive sides, i.e. you could use CCBYNC data inside a
map (which is a product) whithout that data loosing its NC status, on
the other hand basically anyone can do whatever he wants now with OSM
data, whithout giving a penny back. For me this is unacceptable and I
won't agree to the new license, and also tell other people to stay far
away from odbl.
For me Odbl means that the quest for free data has failed, if you push
Odbl license, you push data that is incompatible to CCBYSA terms as we
know them.
Legal-talk is over here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
It is the place to ask legal question.
Regards
Grant
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