Maarten Deen schrieb:
On 29-8-2010 19:21, Rob Myers wrote:
It's basically the same as copyright assignment. Which can work well for
projects of non-profit foundations.
Copyright assignment is not signing a blank sheet of paper.
No, but it is signing a paper that states exactly which information (all
your OSM data? all your GNU code?) is handed over to a specific entity
(the OSMF? the FSF?) in terms of copyright entirely and it's up to that
entity to license it as they please - possible with certain restrictions
(like always making it available with a free and open license, as the CT
states).
Actually, IMHO, it's was wrong of the OSM project to do neither a
copyright assignment nor a license that has a clear clause on automatic
possibility of upgrade to a newer license in the same spirit (i.e. and
"and later" clause).
Robert Kaiser
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