Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2009-03-01 Thread Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: > This is why if you peruse the CC0 site, you'll see it referred to as a > legal tool and not a license. It's a small thing, but an important thing > to remember. Conflating the waiving of rights with the licensing of > rights is what we're trying to avoid in this context.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 31, Issue 4

2009-03-01 Thread John Wilbanks
> > (although I find the idea that freedom can only come from the > > barrel of a license deeply depressing). > That's CC Zero out of the running then. Actually no. This is a slightly wonky lawyer debate about semantics, but we think tools like CC0 should be called *waivers* and not *licenses