On 22 Mar 2009, at 06:08, 80n wrote: > Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons writes: > While some complexities are introduced by differences in background > legal doctrines, others are introduced by the ODbL scheme itself. > > These two points about the complexity of the ODbL are important ones > that probably haven't been discussed as much as they should have been. > > As if the ODbL is not complex enough, when you add in the FIL and > all the other considerations that apply to the practical > implementation within the OSM context (eg click-through access for > mirrored databases etc) then we have something that, in my opinion, > is near to being unusable. > Given that we have a goal of going from 100,000 contributors to 1 > million complexity is something that will cost the community a lot. > On my personal list of issues complexity is one that I consider to > be a show stopper.
I'm sure you're not suggesting that the internet, space travel or openstreetmap should not have been started because they were 'complex'. The complexity arguments are largely superfluous. I don't understand the GPL fully, let alone v3. That doesn't make it a 'show stopper'. I get in my car every day and drive to work without knowing how the engine management system works but it's not a 'show stopper'. I think you should work backwards with their comments from "Open Data Sharing Should Converge on the Public Domain" and the key 'should' to where their position is. Best Steve _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
