[odc-discuss] Allow more time: license is not for OSM data only

Thu Mar 5 06:58:45 UTC 2009

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