2015-11-05 13:36 GMT+01:00 Greg Troxel <[email protected]>: > I also don't understand precisely what the guideline means. It seems > the ODbL means what the courts say the text means, so the guideline is > really a statement of how OSMF and the community view the edge cases, > which could well give weight to a case. > >
Yes, I believe the guidelines are a way to influence the court's way of reading the text by being more explicit how the "community" thinks the text should be interpreted, and by having it published beforehand it is likely also what the potential opponent in a court case would have had to assume how the ODbL text would have to be understood or what was the intention of it. Simon: Why would a vote be necessary? > At the end of the day, these guidelines do influence the meaning of the ODbL (at least that's the idea behind them). As the guidelines haven't been available at the time the mappers gave the OSMF a mandate to distribute their content under the ODbL, it seems reasonable they are asked now whether they're OK with them. Expecting that every contributor is following the talk or even legal-talk mailing list doesn't seem a reasonable way to ask everybody. This even more as some people are pushing for a guideline that would declare the results of geocoding as not ruled by the ODbL. Cheers, Martin
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