On 29.11.22 16:38 Dave F wrote:
If it's a licence change by OSM then how can a maintainer of a database
possibly account for a future, unspecified change who's implementation
was out of their control?
Yes, it's about a license change by OSM.
I don't think it's outlandish to assume that at least some data donors
are comfortable with such terms. After all, this is something that we
expect of individual contributors: The Contributor Terms which every
person with an OSM account has signed grants us (meaning the OSMF board
and a 2/3 majority of active contributors) the right to switch to any
unspecified open license in the future.
Could you expand on what you mean by 'legal text'. Is it a legally
binding contract?
Answering by way of example: I would expect a similar implementation to
the standard waiver we ask for before we import CC-BY data:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B3PN5zfbzThqeTdWR1l3SzJVcTg/view?resourcekey=0-PzVtHArfxvbYidpW2-AVTg
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