Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF
On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Möller use...@ulfm.de wrote: John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the game in terms of having a group that is smart and honest and open in your camp. According to their web site, they are a Company Limited by Guarantee. I couldn't find any information on the owners. Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone else could do anything about it? would it be better for someone like FSF to host the license? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF
On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 09:11:13PM +, OJ W wrote: Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone else could do anything about it? would it be better for someone like FSF to host the license? I think we would have the same concerns as there are with OKF hosting it. I personally think the later version clause should be removed and left for the licensor to decide, or at least written in a similar way to section 14 of the GPL[1], which gives the licensor the option to state version specifics, but has a fallback. If such a change is made, then the community may decide criteria for acceptance of a newer revision of the licence. [1]: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.html#section14 Simon -- A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.—John Gall signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
Re: [OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF
John Wilbanks schrieb: In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the game in terms of having a group that is smart and honest and open in your camp. According to their web site, they are a Company Limited by Guarantee. I couldn't find any information on the owners. Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone else could do anything about it? ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
[OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF
Merging a few threads here again... Just to say that although I hold different positions than the ODC and OKF on this issue, the ODC project has always been of the highest legal and ethical standards, and the OKF folks as well. Jordan has run the ODC as a labor of love for years and deserves a lot of respect for his work there. In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the game in terms of having a group that is smart and honest and open in your camp. jtw ___ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
