On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Donald Allwright <donald_allwri...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and license > the data under > "ODBL 1.0 or later". That means if and when 2.0 comes out (which it surely > will) the data are automatically > covered by the new version. When 2.0 does come out, that changes to "ODBL > 2.0 or later" for all new data > added to the project after that date. As long as we trust the body > responsible for creating the ODBL licence to > create future versions in keeping with the aims of the licence that we > currently understand, that should be > no problem.
I don't feel very confident handing the maintainers of the ODBL a blank cheque for changing the terms under which my works are licensed at a later date via a "or later" clause given the history of its revision process. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
