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Licence and Legal FAQ/Contributor Terms Summary: Difference between revisions

→‎Summary of OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms: updated, license change has now happened
(→‎Summary of OpenStreetMap Contributor Terms: updated, license change has now happened)
# You allow the OpenStreetMap Foundation to publish your bits of data as part of the OpenStreetMap geodata set for others to use.
# The OpenStreetMap Foundation can only publish the data under a free and open license. If it fails in that, it has broken a contract with you.
# Until the proposed change-over, thatThe license is the CC BY SA 2.0. When enough existing contributors agree to re-license their data, that license will change tocurrently [http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1-0/ Open Database License 1.0]. Here is a [http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/ summary version]
# The OpenStreetMap Foundation can only pick a new free license if it's approved by the OSMF membership (a foundation of paid-up members) and a 2/3 majority vote of active contributors. You'll be considered an active contributor if you've edited in at least 3 out of the last 12 months and don't take longer than 3 weeks to reply to E-Mail.
# If you want attribution you should add your name to the Contributors page.
# Both you and the OpenStreetMap Foundation disclaim responsibility for anything that might happen to folks using your data.
 
 
== Previous Contributor Terms ==
 
If you are an existing contributor of data before May 12th 2010, we ask you to re-license your contributions as above as soon as possible. The terms you previously agreed to when registering were:
 
* Your contributions were licensed directly under the CC-BY-SA 2.0 license.
* There was no rights assignment. The OpenStreetMap foundation has had no special rights over contributions.