Frederik (and Steve, and LWG), Rather than receiving questions back, some actual answers to direct questions about adding SA-like requirement to CT would be nice.
Regarding the questions: taking NearMap as an example (copied from another thread, see there for more details): On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Ben Last <[email protected]> wrote: > On 19 July 2010 13:48, Michael Barabanov <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Would specifying that the new license must be not just open/free but >> specifically an SA-like license in contributor agreement solve this >> particular issue? ODBL looks like SA in spirit. Further changing of >> licenses could be a separate discussion, when/if there's a new need > > > I believe that as long as the licence must be share-alike (for a given > definition of "share-alike"), that should work, yes. Seems to me also that > would address the concerns of a number of other contributors to the > discussion, but I don't pretend to have followed in the exhaustive detail to > know if the LWP had a good reason not to write it that way from the start :) > > Cheers > b > > -- > Ben Last > Development Manager (HyperWeb) > NearMap Pty Ltd > NearMap looks quite important for Australia. Michael. On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:06 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > > Peteris Krisjanis wrote: > >> Ok, there it goes: I suggest to add SA clause and Attribution clause >> as requirement for any new open and free license in CT point 3. It >> would help to ease problems with big data contributors which could >> agree with ODBL (as it still have SA and Attribution), but are uneasy >> about clarification of point 3 in CT. >> > > 1. Who are these big data contributors? > > 2. Is it clear that they have issues with the CT or are you only guessing? > > 3. Is it clear that these issues will vanish by what you propose or are you > only guessing? > > 4. Is their contribution so important to OSM that OSM will let them decide > what licenses are acceptable for us? > > > Bye > Frederik > > -- > Frederik Ramm ## eMail [email protected] ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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