Hi,
Tobias Knerr wrote:
Non-relicenseable data should at most be an /exception/. In a situation
where using a certain source would be extremely beneficial to OSM, and
where we would only need to contact a single entity in the case of a
future license change, I understand that we might want to accept that
contributors use that source for making edits in OSM.
But this should not be a choice a single contributor can make. It would
need to be decided through some defined process on a case-by-case basis.
I agree with Tobias that this *should* be the so.
Data that is not fully relicensable, i.e. comes with strings attached,
will always be second-class data in OSM because it carries with it the
potential to cause problems. At the very least it would have to be
flagged as such. Giving everyone the opportunity to add such
second-class data at will (and risking that others who would normally
contribute first-class data build on second-class data and thus produce
something of lesser use to the project) seems a bad choice to me -
worse, actually, than doing our best to explain to everybody why we can
only accept first-class data, and wave a sad goodbye to those who won't
play.
Bye
Frederik
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