Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > what's the status of the license change plans? Have they run > aground - I had been told a few months ago that a new release of > Jordan's draft would be imminent. What's more, the license itself - > about which we'll hear at SOTM - is only one little piece of the > puzzle. The whole transition process - which, correct me if I'm > wrong, is not scheduled to be discussed at SOTM at all - is surely as > difficult. Will we attempt to employ legal tricks to re-license work > of people who don't respond to our license change spam email? What > exactly will we delete if people say "no" to the license change? (It > has been said that even the pub on the street corner may be a work > derived from the road data... and vice versa.) How many people have > to say "no" for us to stop the change altogether? What would we do > then, stick with CC-BY-SA and hope nobody notices? After a license > change, would we keep a "parallel universe" a.k.a. "fork" of OSM > holding the old, not-relicensed data until the wounds in the new data > set have healed? > > Is it possible that this whole transition process and the associated > questions are such a delicate matter that everybody prefers not to > think about it, much less talk about it? That would be very well > understandable but at the same time dangerous. It seems clear to me > that the current license works only as long as people don't look > closely. > > Need I say that, had we decided to simply go PD when last year's SOTM > panel found that there was broad support for it, we would now be one > happy project with all the legal hassles out of the way? It's not to > late to see the light!
Hi Frederik, being new to the legals-list, I tried to search on the wiki I found this link: http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=262 Does still sum up the situation well? What alternatives do exist? Would a more clear explanation on the alternatives and maybe an informal "poll" (through a webtool) among contributors help find feelings of the contributors and allow the Foundation to take a "wise" decision that is best community-backed (or see if further details need explanation to the community)? Kind regards, Stefan Neufeind _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
