At 01:09 PM 9/16/2008, Frederik Ramm wrote: >Hi, > >Steve Chilton wrote: > > Webmapper blogged yesterday about the recent OpenStreetMap Users Day in > > Holland (http://www.webmapper.net/), where Henk (and others) > > presented/discussed the possible move to ODL licensing. > > Could someone summarise where we are on the licence issue for the > > Opengeodata blog or the wiki. > >I'll summarise here: We have no changes to report since the last >Opengeodata blog entry about the licensing. The last "official" >statement I heard was at this year's SOTM conference where we were told >that the license draft was undergoing review by "a second set of legal >eyes" or something like that. > >I suspect that the fact that Jordan Hatcher, the brain behind much of >the initial draft, has taken on a new job (which made it impossible for >him to talk at SOTM) has slowed down things considerably. Also, I had >the impression that Richard Fairhurst was the foundation officer most >active on the topic of discussing, finding, and implementing a new >license, and Richard has not stood for re-election... (but him being >most active may just be a misconception because he took on the role of >communicating with the broader public while everyone else sweated in >private). > >Put in other words: The license debate looks pretty much stalled if you >ask me. > >Bye >Frederik
Jordan has done great work but as he is connected with the drafting itself for a more general audience, we also need that "second pair of eyes" as a completely independent review done from the perspective of OSM/OSMF only. That has fallen through ... things move slowly in the legal world when you don't have much money :-(. I'll post an update as soon as I hear anything. Mike OSMF board _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
