While carefully translating osm rails website into Slovenian i noticed
that signup notice at
http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new currently reads:
By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to
openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which
connect to
Stefan Baebler schrieb:
I guess a re-wording is needed here to calm down and invite the most
paranoid would-be contributors.
As far as I know, you're the first to complain. Anyway, what would you
suggest?
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2009/6/1 Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com:
Note the (non-exclusively). That says that any data you give to
OpenStreetMap.org must be licensed under the CC-By-SA. You're free to
license any of it to the rest of the world under any license you want.
Either I'm misunderstanding you, or you have
I think we're running into the programmers confuse legal agreements
with code problem. If the OSMF went into a court of law and tried to
claim that, because your computer connected once upon a time to OSM,
that everything your computer ever did thereafter had to be
copyrighted CC-By-SA,
Well, translation itself wasn't a problem, but faithfully translating
this rather important message made me read original several times
carefully (and noticing this problem) and then reading the translation
again, to make sure the very same ambiguity is kept (semantic
equivalence) while being
The text a new user gets when signing up is hte following:
(at http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/new )
By creating an account, you agree that all work uploaded to
openstreetmap.org and all data created by use of any tools which
connect to openstreetmap.org is to be (non-exclusively) licensed
