Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License

2008-02-25 Thread Gervase Markham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can a community so focused on freedom, he asks, approve of any restrictions? This has a fairly simple answer: because such a community is focussed on maximising the total sum of freedom, distributed freedom and downstream freedom instead of maximising immediate

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License

2008-02-25 Thread Gervase Markham
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can a community so focused on freedom, he asks, approve of any restrictions? This has a fairly simple answer: because such a community is focussed on maximising the total sum of freedom, distributed freedom and downstream freedom instead of maximising immediate

[OSM-legal-talk] GSDI 10

2008-02-25 Thread John Wilbanks
If anyone will be at GSDI in Trinidad this week, drop me a note if you'd like to meet in person. I'm speaking at the plenary session on Wednesday. I will likely refer to this debate in my comments but only in a general sense (i.e. I won't name anyone, just outline the contours of the PDDL/ODL