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All dates approximate for review. This is the program for adoption of the Open Data License as proposed by the Licensing Working Group. New registrants are now being asked to allow their contributions to be used either under the current CC-BY-SA or under the new ODbL license. Voluntary re-licensing for existing contributors will start just as soon as we can get the technical procedure in place and tested. A draft of the pages contributors will be presented with can be seen here

Licensing Working Group Meetings

Contents

License Plan

Current

PHASE 1 New contributors (started 12 May 2010)

  • New sign ups agree to "dual-license" terms (contributor terms). Planet.osm and API data will continue to be licensed under the CC-BY-SA during the license transition.

PHASE 2 - Existing Contributor Voluntary Re-licensing (as soon as technical process complete)

  • Existing contributor voluntary agreement begins. Website to allow users to voluntarily agree to new license. Design allows you to click yes, or if you disagree a further page explaining the position and asking to reconsider as there may be a requirement to maybe at some future point remove the users data. At this point NO data will be removed and users will be able to reconsider and click "yes" at some point before the cut-off date below. At the cut-off point below, if any data needs to be remove it will be saved and available under the current license, see the draft backup plan. This is intended to help stop people accidentally clicking 'no'.
  • Large data imports where permission has been given previously (AND, GeoBase etc) are asked formally to agree to release their data under the ODbL. (informal communications ongoing lead up to this point led by the working group and the groups/individuals who worked on the imports). 16 June 2010: A Bulk Importers support page goes up.
  • People who have made zero edits are notified on login of new contribution terms and are required to accept. (LWG Work In Progress)
  • Five weeks after the start of voluntary agreement, the License Working Group will meet to assess the total number of voluntary Accept/Declines. If large, the mandatory phase will begin. If small, the voluntary phase will be extended for up to 5 weeks.

PHASE 3 - Existing Contributor Mandatory Re-licensing (Phase 2 + 5 or 10 weeks)

  • Existing contributor mandatory agreement begins. Website only allows you to log in and use API when you have set Accept/Decline on new license. If you, click Decline, you will still be able to continue editing until Phase 4.
  • OpenStreetMap geodata continues to be available to end users only under CC-BY-SA.
  • License Working Group meeting. Assessment of number of Decline responses and number of people who haven't said either way. Emails ready to send to contact those who have not clicked Accept or Decline. Personal outreach to those who have said Decline.

PHASE 4 - CC-BY-SA edits no longer accepted. (Phase 3 + 8 weeks subject to critical mass)

  • Final cut-off. Community Question... What do we do with the people who have Declined or not responded? Their contributions would not be available under the future ODbL version of the database.
  • We do not yet have a firm timeline for the end of this one. Start of technical work to publish the first ODbL-only database.

DONE! - License Cut-over from CC-BY-SA to ODbL (date to be decided, depends on the technical work)

  • Cut-over from CC-BY-SA to ODbL. Folks can start using OpenStreetMap data under the Open Database License 1.0. From this point, the live version of the OpenStreetMap database will only be available under ODbL.
  • A final planet.osm export of the database under the CC-BY-SA license will be published and will be made available for an indefinite (i.e: as long as possible) period.

Historical

27 February 2009

  • The draft license text (ODbL 0.9) was made available by Open Data Commons with facility for providing feedback and an email list for discussing the license and a draft adoption plan was proposed by the OSMF licensing working group on OSM legal_talk[1] and on OSM talk[2] a little later.

5 March 2009

  • Working group met, discussed implementation plan following partial review of plan comments and published minutes.

6 March 2009

  • Working group met to discuss issues further and published minutes.

10/11 March 2009

  • Working group scheduled to review of community feedback received to date. No minutes have been published to date (13th March)

March 2009

  • Date unknown, Jordan (the author of the ODbL) has said he will publish a further draft on the comment site based on the comments received, before the end of the comment process. We don't know when that date will be.

20 March 2009

  • End of Open Data Commons ODbL v0.9 comment period. This is the close of the comment period on the ODbL *only* and this is driven by its author and its home at the OKFN. This is not the close of comments on how, when and if OSM adopts that license.

29 June 2009

9 July 2009

  • License Working Group presents a formal proposal to the OSMF Board at their face-to-face meeting in Amsterdam. The proposal document can be read here http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_24fb5v7rfh . The Board is now conducting a open-ended review.

5th December 2009 (week 0)

  • OSMF Board asks OSMF members (who have to be a member as of or prior to 13th October 2009 to ensure no rigging can occur afterward by masses of people joining just to vote.) to vote (3 week grace period within which to vote, after 2 week we will send out a reminder to people who haven't yet responded) on whether ODbL 1.0 should be put to the community for adoption.

19th December 2009 (week 2)

  • Reminder email to OSMF members vote on ODbL adoption.

26th December 2009 (week 3)

  • voting ends (ended. Results are available at here)

OSMF Members voted in favour of proceeding with the transition plan for the potential adoption of ODbL... (see 5th December 2009 entry and 26th December 2009 entry)

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