I posted a query about various 'Use Cases' for OSM data in regard to the new licence on the 7th Feb. See archive here:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000680.htm l I was concerned to see that the answers received were not conclusive and that no response has been given by a qualified lawyer. With regard to the brief for this licence and the acceptance procedure for the completed licence I recommend that we: 1) Agree aims of the license in non-legal terms as a set of Use Cases on the wiki. 2) Agreed in advance an acceptance test for each Use Case; for example if the use case is using OSM mapping of Bagdad for an ITN news item about Iraq then we ask ITN to check the proposed licence and say if it is acceptable to them or not. If we want the data to be usable by Mutlimap within their current page structure then we ask them to ask their lawyer to sign it off. If we don't want people to strip the footpaths and add then to a commercial road data and sell it then we agree to get the licence checked by an independent lawyer in this respect. 3) Get a licence written that meets these use cases to the greatest extent possible. 4) Test the licence via the use cases using the agreed mechanisms. 5) Recommend the licence for adoption by the community. Regards, Peter Miller
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