Peter, Peter Miller wrote: > Where is the official input from the foundation to all this?
Consider the possibility that there is no official input because the Foundation has not discussed these issues. Relicensing is immensely complex. Each day I think about it I come up with a number of different fringe scenarios or questions like my "who is the licensor". The database directive on top of which the ODbL is modeled was never meant to cover a collaborative database like we have; it was designed to protect the investment of large companies that let their employees create big databases by amassing otherwise non-copyrighted facts. Lawyers or laymen, we cannot expect that people come up with "official" answers to our questions within a day - much less can we assume that the Foundation board has coincidentally already provided well-formulated answers to arising questions. They're just people like you and me, and even though we have talked and thought about the licensing stuff forever, we manage to come up with new and unprecedented license questions every other day ;-) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
