Mike Dupont writes:
On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Mike Dupont
<jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com> wrote:
that is different than to ask for the CT which is my eyes basically a
copyright assignment to the osmf, I cannot understand that or explain
And to add in one more point, I dont want to have to go back again and
again to donors asking for more and more rights, we need to nail this
down once and for all.
This is a good reason to have contributor terms.
It also protects users of the data from the possibility of lawsuits just
because someone who agreed to donate data in the past changed mind.
My opinion: If someone gives data to OSM then it must be without any
special treatment. We agree to mention the contribution in the wiki, but no
source tag.
Some data was allowed to be imported if we name the source. So we ended up
with a lot of source tags in the DB. What happens if someone removes these
source tags? We violate the license of a data import.
I believe we do not want to have that arguing later. Either someone accepts
the OSM Terms and contributes or we don't want the contribution at all.
It creates a lot of hassle to have endless special contracts.
So better have a clear contributor term also for imports. And no need to
contact them again in one year, or in five.
Stephan
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