Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Open Issues

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Peter Miller wrote:
 I would however suggest that we avoid the  
 legal details where possible and try to just describe in plain english  
 what the problem is. 

Well - in plain English there is no problem. The questions I am asking 
arise from the legal construct! There is no core non-legal question 
there; I would not have dreamt of asking these questions had I not read 
the ODbL draft.

If you want to rework the text back to core non-legal questions then you 
might as well delete it ;-)

And about the ianal but: Any lawyer or person with access to a lawyer 
is welcome to answer the questions (or explain why they are not relevant 
which would be just as welcome). Until then, these are open questions 
for the lawyer and non-lawyer alike, and they do not lose their 
importance just because they have been formulated by a normal thinking 
person. Our users, when asked to relicense their contributions, will 
want to have answers to these questions, and they're not lawyers either ;-)

Bye
Frederik


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[OSM-legal-talk] Open Issues

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

I have taken the liberty of putting my most recent little-discussed 
questions onto a new Wiki page:

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues

I believe these questions are really important and answers to them must 
be found before or during the transition; it would be dangerously naive 
IMHO to switch to the new license and think we can work that out later.

But I may be wrong in this assumption and, as always, anyone is invited 
to amend that page.

I really want to keep the page factual and not introduce any POV 
elements, that's why I did not sign it. I suggest that anyone editing 
the page tries the same; If you think my wording is too strong (we must 
decide blah blah) then just change it to something better (it would be 
prudent to decide blah blah) or put a whole paragraph into perspective 
or whatever.

Bye
Frederik

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