----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Bennett" <[email protected]>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, October 04, 2010 12:33 AM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Checking if I understand correctly...
Hi,
Is the following statement correct: "Under the new Contributor
Terms, you may only contribute to content to OSM that you own, or have
been given authority to license to the OSMF for future relicensing."
This is only slowly dawning on me. If this is correct, then we can no
longer do imports of CC-BY-SA data, unless the original provider
expressly gives open-ended relicensing permission: that is, simply
licensing it as CC-BY-SA and ODbL is not enough, we would need an
explicit statement that the content may be used under the new OSM
Contributor Terms.
Steve
see
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms/Open_Issues
where a number of the issues have been raised.
The particular issues I believe you have concerns with have also been
discussed extensively on this list. You wont be surprised if I say that not
everyone agrees with you interpretation.
However the CT's are currently being revised,
https://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_81272pvt54 and the revised
version probably will give you less concern.
Regards
David
Whee.
Steve
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