Vào lúc 15:48 2022-11-28, Tobias Knerr đã viết:
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).
Could you clarify the "perhaps" here? If something has been explicitly
dedicated to the public domain via CC0, a similar statement, or a
relevant law, should it not survive any relicensing attempt? Or is this
just about the editorial decision of whether to leave the table cell
blank if relicensing is irrelevant for a given import? The wiki has a
{{n/a}} template for this purpose.
I've already heard concerns from a couple U.S. mappers about this
thread, because the community here been operating under the assumption
that public domain datasets are the best-case scenario for inclusion in
OSM. If a local government agency has already released something into
the public domain, irrevocably and so forth, it would be
counterproductive to send their legal department a scary-looking
document to fill out. I don't know how I'd convince them that they have
the legal authority to enter into an agreement governed by English law.
Hopefully I'm overreacting.
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m...@nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us
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