On Fri, 2012-03-30 at 15:54 +0100, Grant Slater wrote: > Australian Decliners, > > As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I > kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is > about to run out.
I am a decliner, and contributed substantial amounts of data to the map (mainly in Adelaide, Melbourne & Geelong) back in the early days of OSM (late 2007 to mid 2009), although I haven't made any edits in almost 2 years now (that's not OSM's fault -- I just haven't had the time recently). Whilst I'd prefer that my old contributions remained in use by the community, as originally intended, I still have reservations about the open-ended relicensing provisions of the new CTs. I've just re-read the CTs, and must admit they do look less objectionable to me now than when I first read them -- outside of the future reclicensing provisions (clause 3), I don't have any problem with them. Re those provisions, I still have one question, which I'm hoping someone on the list can address. Clause 3 talks about "or such other free and open licence". I'm curious as to how "free and open license" is defined in this context. Both the FSD and the OSD speak specifically to software, not data. In the software world, there have been instances in the past of licenses claiming to be "free" or "open source", without actually adhering to the FSD or OSD. I suspect the same will be true in years to come with respect to licensing of data. To agree to such a future relicensing provision, I think the parameters around it would need to be fairly well defined (not so open-ended). In the absence of a definition in the CTs themselves, that would mean a well-recognised definition of "free and open license" (with respect to data) existing somewhere else (like the FSD & OSD do in the software domain). Can anyone point me to such a definition? Regards, Jack Burton <j...@saosce.com.au> _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
