On 5 Mar 2009, at 01:11, Peter Miller wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2009, at 00:29, SteveC wrote: >> >> >>> For your interest my company's lawyer (acting for ITO World Ltd) >>> is hoping to have her response together in relation to the license >>> by the end of tomorrow. My company will review her comments and >>> hope to be able to make that document publicly available to the >>> community by the end of this week. She may also give opinion on >>> some Use Cases and Open Issues which could be useful. >> >> Great. Are those opinions in relation to ITO!s business or from the >> point of view purely of the use cases? > > They will be from ITO's business perspective and we will focus > mainly on Use Cases that matter to our business however we are in > many ways a 'typical' business as as such our advice may well be of > relevant to other businesses, especially ones using the same Use > Cases and particularly ones that operate in the UK. > > We will also look at whether the license works for the project as a > whole because we want that to work as well however we would > encourage other to also get legal opinion from there perspectives. > If they can share the advise with the OSM/ODbL community then so > much the better.
Cool > A 'pure' OSM perspective should of course come from the OSMF lawyer > and I hope you/the 'licensing group' will be able to explain some of > the outstanding Use Cases to him so he can give an opinion. Is that > going to be possible within the consultation phase? I don't see why not - Grant add to the agenda and lets discuss. Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
