On 16 Sep 2008, at 12:09, 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.
Absolutely not, I spent half a day working on it last week and it will get another half day this week. I was going to update everybody then but it's not quite there yet. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
