[odc-discuss] Process and Submitting Comments on the ODbL

Thu Mar 5 14:10:18 UTC 2009

Dear All,

At the end of the long recent thread (see below) I saw mention of
drafting suggested changes (from OSM) on the OSM wiki as well as a
mechanism's for the OSM community to get a consensus on what they
want. I think these are both excellent ideas.

In fact, in general I would suggest we limit on this list, where
possible, discussion of *what* is wanted as I think such matters are
better discussed within the communities involved (with the results
reported back here). That way we can focus here on specific questions
about the license and specific suggested changes.

Obviously, such neat divisions do not always work perfectly and I am
sure there will be lots of occasions where we may need to debate here
on 'what' questions such as what type of SA is wanted. However, I
think at least at a first stage those discussions should be within the
relevant community.

Does this make sense?

Regards.

Rufus

2009/3/5 Matt Amos <zerebubuth at gmail.com>:
> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 11:45 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> I've tried to go a bit beyond what co-ment offers and started a page on the
>> OpenStreetMap Wiki:
>>
>> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Suggested_Changes
>>
>> On that page I've tried to not only list our ideas but also (native speaker
>> of neither Legalese nor English that I am!) find possible wordings for them
>> and identify where and how they could be inserted into ODbL. This will
>> certainly require some work if it is to be anywhere near useful to Jordan
>> for his review but maybe some of you can chip in.
>
> good idea! more bi-directional communication with the those fluent in
> Legalese can only help :-)
>
> i've added a wording suggestion to my favourite solution to the
> postgis dump problem. we need to get to the heart of what kind of
> derivatives we feel are worth protecting, so we can isolate them from
> other, inconsequential derivatives.
>
> also, richard weait has put up a straw poll, which could be really
> useful for judging the zeitgeist. please go vote:
> http://weait.com/content/when-should-derived-database-share-alike-be-required
>
> cheers,
>
> matt
>
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