The license working group had the following /enclosed mail sent to
the talk mailing list yesterday (note that this is just an
announcement that real soon now, there will be an announcement
stating when phase 3 will start).
Simon
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This is to let you know the license change process is moving to
Phase 3
[1] very shortly. When we are sure of the date we will make a formal
announcement on this and other lists.
If you are a contributor who registered on or after 12th May 2010 or
who has taken part in our voluntary re-licensing program, this does
not
affect you.
If you were a contributor before this date and have not accepted
yet,
you will be asked to accept or decline the new terms. You can find
background information about this on the main wiki page [2]. If you
use
an off-line editor like JOSM, you will need to manually login to
click
the buttons. Even if you choose to decline the new terms, you will
still be able to continue editing.
If you are a user of OpenStreetMap data, this does not affect you.
OpenStreetMap data continues to be licensed only under CC-BY-SA and
this will continue until we reach a critical mass of acceptance of
the
new license.
You can see up-to-date OpenStreetMap ODbL acceptance by region at
any
time by going to http://odbl.de . See "world"
for the global
picture.
As part of the process, the legal wording of the Contributor Terms
has
been improved [3] on the basis of community feedback received and to
make them more friendly to individual contributors. The
human-readable
version of the Contributor Terms is unchanged [4].
Michael Collinson
License Working Group
[1] More about Phase 3:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan
[2] "Find out more
about
OpenStreetMap's upcoming license change" link:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org
or directly at
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/We_Are_Changing_The_License
[3] The revised contributor terms showing exactly what has been
changed:
https://docs.google.com/a/stiernegrip.se/document/pub?id=1jY58fD3JyNUjzmecrpNejoOt4OnfHeEM-6o8rD5hCLY
[4] The human-readable version of the Contributor Terms remains the
same:
http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Contributor_Terms_Summary