Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal review by ITO World's lawyer

2009-03-15 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 14, 2009, at 4:35 AM, Peter Miller wrote: the viral nature of these licenses I don't want a virus, but I like the reciprocal nature of these licenses. -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com -

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Legal review by ITO World's lawyer

2009-03-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Russ Nelson wrote: I don't want a virus, but I like the reciprocal nature of these licenses. Reciprocal is not the correct term IMHO. Reciprocal would mean that if you take our data you will have to give us something in return. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Possible datasources: Corine Land Cover 2000dataset

2009-03-15 Thread Ciprian Talaba
Hi Andy, Jukka, I have created a new entry on the Potential Datasources wiki page: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php?title=Potential_Datasourcesaction=submit#Corine_Land_Cover_2000_datasets. I am also posting this to OSM-talk so more people can review the possibility of using this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Gervase Markham
On 14/03/09 20:32, Ulf Möller wrote: OSFM is trying to get ODbL 1.0 in place as soon as possible and fix problems in version 1.1 later on. The difficulty with doing that is that people who are approached about relicensing their data might say no, because the licence is broken in ways X, Y and

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gervase Markham wrote: OSFM is trying to get ODbL 1.0 in place as soon as possible and fix problems in version 1.1 later on. The difficulty with doing that is that people who are approached about relicensing their data might say no, because the licence is broken in ways X, Y and Z

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: why are we bothering with switching OSM to 1.0 at all? Why not just wait for the 1.1 fixed version? 1) Because ODbL 1.0 is better than C-By-SA 2) Because it's not clear that we'll understand ODbL any time soon well enough to fix any

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Simon Ward
On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:26:14PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: why are we bothering with switching OSM to 1.0 at all? Why not just wait for the 1.1 fixed version? 1) Because ODbL 1.0 is better than C-By-SA So far that is one thing that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

2009-03-15 Thread Russ Nelson
On Mar 15, 2009, at 8:33 PM, Simon Ward wrote: On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 08:26:14PM -0400, Russ Nelson wrote: On Mar 15, 2009, at 6:00 PM, Gervase Markham wrote: why are we bothering with switching OSM to 1.0 at all? Why not just wait for the 1.1 fixed version? 1) Because ODbL 1.0 is better