On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Gervase Markham wrote: > The new Contributor Terms contain the equivalent of a joint copyright > assignment to the OSMF. That makes this recent article by Michael Meeks > on copyright assignment in free software very relevant: > http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/copyright-assignment.html > > Of course, not all of the pros and cons he raises are relevant to data > rather than software. But the following sentence struck me: > > "It appears (to me) that choosing a license that can be upgraded and > bug-fixed in-flight by a responsible steward or proxy substantially > removes the requirement of assignment for re-licensing." > > I would recommend reading the whole article. > > Gerv > >
Thanks Gerv, the article does warrant spending half an hour reading and thinking about. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
