On 25 August 2011 02:00, andrzej zaborowski <balr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This is a different topic but last I heard the CT don't assure > everything you upload is ODbL compatible, but rather than "your > contribution" is compatible with all the licenses that may be chosen > by OSMF -- and that everything you uploaded is as far as you know > compatible with the current license, i.e. CC-By-SA. > There are two separate things there: a) "your contribution" is compatible with all the licenses that may be chosen by OSMF b) everything you uploaded is as far as you know compatible with the current license, i.e. CC-By-SA. I don't think that data under any licence other than PD could satify (a) because the OSMF can chose any free an open license (subject to a vote etc.). Given the unknown conditions of a future license, you can't guarantee compatibility of your data with a future one. That means that if a re-license were to occur in future, OSMF would somehow have to figure out what data was compatible and what wasn't. I agree about (b), that it sounds like the only requirement clause 1a adds on uploaded data is compatilbility with CC-BY-SA (as it's the "current license terms"). On the assumption that clause 2 only extends as far as you can grant those rights, I don't see what would prevent someone from agreeing to the CTs and then uploading CC-BY-SA data (other than politeness and social pressure). After the transition to ODbL, I would assume that people are okay with contributors uploading ODbL-licensed data; for example something that they have downloaded and then edited. -- James
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