There has been a great number of mails on osmf-talk about an upcoming vote on the database licence.
Sadly, I'd like to say that I will not be supporting the proposed new licence. It is designed around European law, and gives "database protection" which is not a legal concept which is likely to apply here, after the recent High Court case Nine vs IceTv, when the database was not afforded "protection". I've been thinking about the imports from ABS and the Qld government. That data is licensed CC-by-SA and would have to be *removed* from OSM as we cannot negotiate with ABS and Qld for the new, non-existent licence with no basis in Australian law. This would make a whacking hole in our data and make our map look like an empty shell. Only those who belonged to OSMF in Oct 09 will get a vote. Those who are 'merely' contributors will only get to be asked if they will relicense their data or not. Only data from people who agree to relicensing will go forward into the new licence. Liz _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
