[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and porting (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Jordan S Hatcher
Hi everyone, I'm afraid that there may be some confusion over the choice of law clause within the ODbL (Section 10.4) and what it means for a porting process for the ODbL (and by implication the PDDL). By way of background, Creative Commons has a process where it started out with a license

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and porting (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Russ Nelson
On May 26, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Jordan S Hatcher wrote: An occupational hazard of being a lawyer is to always try to hedge, even a little bit, even when the chance are really remote. So I can't say that unequivocally Open Data Commons will never go through a porting process similar to the one

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and porting (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Francis Davey
2009/5/26 Russ Nelson r...@cloudmade.com: Also look at the EU Public License.  It's a reciprocal license for software (specifically mentions source code).  The most interesting thing about it is that it was done on the EU Commission level, AND they got the associated governments to all agree