On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:08, Peter Miller <[email protected]> wrote: > Would it be appropriate to continue this conversation on legal-talk? > Talk is very busy at the moment and we have a lovely list of our own :)
Why do the non-lawyers need to go to the lawyers if they're making proposals that impact everyone in OSM, lawyers or not? The announcement of the implementation plan wasn't even cc:ed to the larger community, which is completely inexcusable. > With regard to these questions, lets make a clear distinction between > the question (which anyone is qualified to raise) and the answer (for > which one is likely to need to be a lawyer)! Possibly Ben is a lawyer, > I am not sure, but in the past we have tended to form a legal opinion > without ever asking a lawyer. IANAL, but it's my understanding that case law in my particular jurisdiction says that a contract hasn't been broken when one party makes a reasonable interpretation of the language of the contract, even if it isn't what the writer of the contract intended it to mean. If the wording of the license leads reasonable people on this list to make the wrong assumptions, you need to know about it so you can change it. -- David J. Lynch [email protected] _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
