On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 07:34:57AM +0200, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > On 18 April 2011 07:26, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks Grant, > > > > I understand what the OSMF stands for, and my question was maybe > > unclear: > > > > What does this phrase (about the transferred rights )in the contributor > > terms mean: > > > >> From CT 1.2.4/2 > >> " These rights explicitly include commercial use, and do not exclude > > any > >> field of endeavour." > > > > As written down it seems opposite to the OSMF statutes and memorandum... > > Commercial use needs to be allowed for the data to even be considered > "open knowledge" according to http://www.opendefinition.org/okd/ . > Since this is often a deciding factor for authors/users/courts, it's > probably good that this is mentioned explicitly.
“commercial” is ambiguous, and while I don’t expect “commercial“ use to be restricted, I don’t think it needs to be explicitly stated. Just allow “any field of endeavour”. KISS, etc. Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall
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