Hi, I'm following the license debate from its very beginning. Despite the long time, now I feel a little pressed by the thight schedule.
Please consider that a new license is a very important piece of software, as the GPL license is the most important piece of code that Stallman wrote. The Italian Geographic Free and Open Source Software association (GFOSS.it) is long looking for a suitable license for geodata. We think that the main hurdle to freeing most of the geodata owned by our public administration is the lack of a clear and well accepted license. Several time we thought that whould be nice to hire a lawyer and let him to write a suitable license. Consider that almost no feedback about the new license appeared till now on the talk-it list, and no evidence at all on the gfoss mailing list. The importance of a license well suited to all geodata is far beyond the debate of what percentage of OSM data we will lost in the transition. I suggest to revise the schedule, to allow a more wide debate. We don't need a license for OSM data, we need a license for free data. -- Niccolo Rigacci Firenze - Italy _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk