Hi,
Rob Myers wrote:
In the US, the FSF are very careful to say that the GPL is a license,
not a contract.
The proposed ODbL, on the other hand, is very careful to point out that
it wants to be a license as well as a contract... so maybe that's not
the best path to go down then?
Bye
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Frederik Ramm wrote:
Rob Myers wrote:
In the US, the FSF are very careful to say that the GPL is a license,
not a contract.
The proposed ODbL, on the other hand, is very careful to point out that
it wants to be a license as well as a
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 11:26:21PM +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
Frederik Ramm wrote:
So if we can't get rid of the click-through is not the question.
Replace it by if we cannot find a license that works without
clicktrough.
Well, there ain't none.
Sorry, I'm over-simplifying.
Hi,
I see the click-through is still in! Doesn't anybody else think this
is completely insane? An Open License with a click through?
The license text didn't have anything about click-through, click-
wrap, browse-wrap or whatever, it only had the bit about being a
contract.
If either the
Frederik Ramm wrote:
If either the current license draft or the brief brief mean that in
the future, OSM data may only be offered after displaying a note to
the user and requesting him to click ok (or the equivalent in other
media), then this would be a significant drawback compared to
On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 9:07 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
what we
want is suitable as some kind of ethics/morality stick we can use to
beat people who misbehave, even if they misbehave within the envelope of
the law.
I hope this thread has something to do with punishing
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Frederik Ramm wrote:
clicktrough
is the embodiment of impracticality.
Yes.
Using the data should require no agreement. Distributing modifications
(and by distributing I mean exposing in any way to users not employed
or subcontracted by your
Frederik Ramm wrote:
So if we can't get rid of the click-through is not the question.
Replace it by if we cannot find a license that works without
clicktrough.
Well, there ain't none.
Sorry, I'm over-simplifying. But the question is really simple, it's
just the answer that's
