On 28.11.22 at Simon Poole wrote:
What is "OSM Contributor Terms compatibility" supposed to be?
Ok, this is clearly imprecise wording.¹
The context is that we would like to offer data donors a standard legal
text that they can use to make their data available to OSM in such a way
that we would expect it to survive a hypothetical license change. And
yes, this would perhaps look similar to a CC0 waiver, except that it
could potentially be a bit more limited (in a similar way the CT limits
the set of licenses under which the OSMF can choose to publish the
database).
So the column would be mostly about whether this legal text or something
equivalent has been signed or not (+ perhaps public domain/CC0 data that
has the ability to survive a license change by default could also check
the box).
Tobias
¹ The wording is my fault and, iirc, was inspired by the column name at
https://wiki.osm.org/Import/ODbL_Compatibility
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