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From: "M?rtin Koppenhoefer" <dieterdre...@gmail.com>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk@openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:44 PM
Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] legal FAQ license
reading the legal FAQ for the license change:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ
there is a paragraph that looks strange to me:
"... - we may take the view that those who have made small
contributions, but cannot be contacted, would relicence their data
under the new licence. We will enable them to contact us at a later
date."
this part looks like a problem to me, as it is opt-out instead of the
always proclaimed opt-in, or have I misunderstood this? Or is this
refering to anonymous edits only?
Unfortunately the wiki seems to offer conflicting views on what might
happen.
The section you quoted [1] does indeed seem to indicate that contributions
from some people who have not responded will be left in the database.
However further up the same page [2] it says " remove any data from any
users who do not respond or respond negatively (the hard bit) ", and again
here [3] it says "What do we do with the people who have Declined or not
responded? Their contributions would not be available under the future ODbL
version of the database. "
David
cheers,
Martin
[1]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ#What_happens_if_not_everyone_agrees.3F
[2]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License_FAQ#How_will_the_switch_take_place.3F
[3]
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Implementation_Plan#PHASE_4_-_CC-BY-SA_edits_no_longer_accepted._.28Phase_3_.2B_8_weeks_subject_to_critical_mass.29
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