On 18 April 2011 07:26, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <g.grem...@cetest.nl> wrote: > Thanks Grant, > > I understand what the OSMF stands for, and my question was maybe > unclear: > > What does this phrase (about the transferred rights )in the contributor > terms mean: > >> From CT 1.2.4/2 >> " These rights explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude > any >> field of endeavour." > > As written down it seems opposite to the OSMF statutes and memorandum...
Commercial use needs to be allowed for the data to even be considered "open knowledge" according to http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/ . Since this is often a deciding factor for authors/users/courts, it's probably good that this is mentioned explicitly. Cheers _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
