Robert Whittaker (OSM) wrote: > Clause 2 requires contributors to make a large grant of IP rights > to OSMF on any content added to OSM. I believe that the intent > here is actually that you only grant OSMF the rights necessary > for them to act as described in clauses 3 and 4.
Agreed. > Lets now consider what rights are necessary for OSMF to act as > described in clauses 3 and 4. Since the data will be initially > distributed under CC-By-SA and ODbL, you must have sufficient > rights to allow the data you contribute to be distributed in this way. Agreed. > Since there is also the possibility of OSM content later being > distributed under a license that requires no downstream attribution > or share-alike provisions Agreed on share-alike. Attribution: CT 4 could (and perhaps should) be more explicitly worded; I have more confidence that it implies a downstream requirement than that it doesn't, so I'm happy to agree to CT 1.2.2 and make contributions from (say) CC-BY sources, but I'm aware that others may disagree. > [...] > So if the license you have data under contains share-alike or > viral-attribution clauses then you do not have the necessary rights > to grant to OSMF, and therefore it cannot be contributed under the > terms of clause 2. Again, agreed on share-alike. > However, I'm not sure how clause 1 fits into this. > [...] > If it is meant to only cover the contributor's own IP rights in > the submitted contents, then I think the wording needs to be > clarified. I like Francis's suggestion for such a clarification very much, and have forwarded it to the LWG with a request that they consider it. > But then I'd be happy that you'd be able to use OS OpenData under > those CTs. \o/ cheers Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-CTs-and-the-1-April-deadline-tp5887879p5892668.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
