On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM, OJ W <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Nic Roets <[email protected]> wrote: > > Has the ODbL been finalized yet ? If not it will either need to read > > something like "ODbL version X or later". > > The "or later" seems to be included in the text of ODBL S4.4 (unlike > GPL etc where its a per-project choice) with the slight difference > that ODBL doesn't specify who's allowed to publish the next version. > > In fact, isn't this a controversial paragraph anyway, since it gives > whoever publishes the licenses power to do whatever they want with the > data, simply by writing a new version? > The ODbL license is owned by OpenDataCommons: http://www.opendatacommons.org/about/advisory-council/ I believe this group of people controls future versions of this and the FIL license. The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org/projects claims that Open Data Commons is one of their projects. I am not sure how that relationship works though. 80n > > _______________________________________________ > legal-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk >
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