Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-21 Thread Ed Avis
Mike Collinson m...@... writes: - When enough contributors have agreed, we cut over to licensing the current database under ODbL, (And a static snapshot of the database is also made forever under CC-BY-SA). If for some reason this event never happens, the fail safe is that licensing of all

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-21 Thread Richard Weait
On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 1:03 PM, Ed Avis e...@waniasset.com wrote: Mike Collinson m...@... writes: - When enough contributors have agreed, we cut over to licensing the current database under ODbL, (And a static snapshot of the database is also made forever under CC-BY-SA).  If for some reason

[OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Collinson
I am pleased to announce that we went live today with new contributor terms, for NEW contributors and we already have contributors signed up. OpenStreetMap has NOT yet moved to the new license. A copy of the terms can be viewed here,

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-12 Thread Tom Hughes
On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote: This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the possibility of that happening. The whole point

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-12 Thread andrzej zaborowski
On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote: This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the possibility of that happening. The whole

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Collinson
At 04:28 PM 12/05/2010, Tom Hughes wrote: On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote: This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New OSM contributor licensing under ODbL and CC-BY-SA started today

2010-05-12 Thread Mike Collinson
At 04:37 PM 12/05/2010, andrzej zaborowski wrote: Now saying new contributors have to agree to the CC-By-SA and ODbL is a little unprecise. I thought that was the case based on the two mail announcements sent today, but it's the Contributor Terms, not ODbL based on what Avar reports. I may be