On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Gervase Markham <[email protected]>wrote:
> On 03/03/09 18:23, Andy Allan wrote: > > We've been talking about the ODbL for a loooong time now, way more > > than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated > > April 2008. If you're new to the discussions, then welcome, but don't > > make like the ODbL has never been seen before and that we're trying to > > do everything in 1 month. > > Everything that Frederik said. There has been no interactive discussion > with the editors of the licence, no formal place (as there is now on > co-ment.net) for collating and discussing issues, no explanation of the > deltas from the previous draft to this, no explanation of how it might > work in a range of possible use cases, etc. etc. > Wilson Sonsini was engaged by OSMF on October 13, 2008. Since then there has been a dialog between Jordan Hatcher and Wilson Sonsini acting on behalf of OSMF. Other than the uses cases document, which was published at the same time as the license, the OSMF board has not received *any* communication from Wilson Sonsini. As far as I am aware any interactive discussion between Clark Asay and Jordan Hatcher has not been documented. 80n > > You say the licence isn't completely new. Where's the document showing > the differences from the previously discussed draft, along with the > rationale for why each change was made? Something like this: > http://gplv3.fsf.org/rationale > (PDF document) > I believe the GPLv3 process issued three or four of those, although they > appear to have taken all but the final one down. > > Without such a document, it might as well be completely new. > > > Gerv > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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