Am 09.06.2020 um 18:04 schrieb nd...@redhazel.co.uk: > .... > Who owns the iD project now? What's happened after "nearly all of the > original authors left Mapbox", has the project ownership been > transferred from Mapbox to OSMF, or perhaps to current maintainers? > Does Mapbox still retain the ownership rights to the project (even if > they don't currently care about them)? I don't think that is a particularly relevant question, but at least the non-forked code base currently is at https://github.com/openstreetmap/iD > > The code license is very permissive so there is always an option of > starting a new project based on it (forking). But the license and > ownership of the project are not the same thing.
iD doesn't require any rights assignment to have contributions accepted, so again I'm not sure that that is a meaningful question. The IP rights in the code are owned by individuals contributing, and given that the major part of the code was work for hire*, by the companies employing them. But this would only be relevant in the case of re-licensing in any form. > >> Many would have argued that the OSMF should have received the half a >> million dollarsĀ and contracted the work out, maybe to Mapbox, but in >> any case just because what actually happened was slightly different, >> doesn't mean that the OSMF and the OSM community gave whoever happens to >> be working on iD the licence to control the projects destiny forever. > > Not saying that this shouldn't be the case, but clearly it wasn't, at > least initially. And if it isn't ours we can't simply take it, even if > we really, really want it. As Frederik pointed out, without the OSMF agreeing to distribute the code and host it on openstreetmap.org the project would have been a non-starter. Your whole concept that this is something that developed independently and now there is now a grab by the OSMF to control itĀ is completely at odds with reality, most of the issues are actually due to the OSMF -not- exercising its power in the past which is what this initiative is trying to address. > > From my point of view - I am happy with the current project > governance. It works well for iD, it works well for the OSM community. > Controversies are all around minor issues and contributions - > basically saying that the maintainers are doing their job. > Many people will disagree with that. Simon * "naturally", well it is one of the issues, the OSMF doesn't have any direct knowledge of the terms of employment of the relevant individuals, so this is a bit of speculation. > Ndrw > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
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