Hi, Peter Miller wrote: >> If we get 99% there with version 1.0 and version 2.0 takes the next >> two years then the cost benefit, to me, would suggest 1.0 as the >> better deal. > > Lets first get the consultation input into Jordan, then lets read the > updated draft, then comment again if that is requested, then wait for > the final draft for version 1.
Yes. "For the avoidance of doubt", the current draft is IMO nowhere even near "99% there" and it is absolutely clear that changes have to be made. Also, the cost of staying with buggy old CC-BY-SA for a few months longer is rather negligible, so any cost-benefit analysis would have to take that into account. It's not that our house is burning and we need someone with a hose quickly. > We can then decide as a community if we > are happy to proceed (which I think we will). If there is a big > problem then I suspect that a version 1.1 could be turned round > quickly to address it. Good for you to be optimistic, however I quote Rufus Pollock from odc-discuss: "I'd also point out that it will be possible upgrade the license (a v2.0 if you like) though that is not likely to happen that quickly after a v1.0 release." The worst that could happen would be to talk people into accepting a buggy 1.0 with the promise of a quick upgrade to a fixed 1.1 and then seeing 1.1 take forever. It's not that I expect a license to be perfect, none will ever be; I just expect us to fix the bugs we already see, and reserve the upgrade mechanism for those that pop up later, rather than rushing through something where we already have a list of known bugs. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk