[OSM-legal-talk] New license status

[Mike Collinson]

Here is a quick report from the License Working Group as we have been rather
quiet.

Since the proposal we made to the OSMF board in August and at SOTM 2009, we
have been working on a number of small issues raised but now getting on
track to make our final formal license change proposal to OSMF members.

- We now have a simple human-readable summary of the ODbL initiated by us
and hosted at http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

- A very much re-worked Contributor Terms is now virtually complete and you
can see a snapshot at http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1kqzg8dhr. Any
comments or discussion welcome.

- We believe we are now on the final countdown to presenting a formal
proposal to OSMF members.  This will be based on a slight re-work of this
document presented to the Sept 15th board meeting:
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_2mp8f5shj

- While OSMF members study the proposal, we are also circulating it to a
number of legal luminaries in the Open Intellectional Property community as
a courtesy and for any comments they might makes, especially as to
interaction with other projects that are or make use of open creative works
and open software.

- The OSMF board will meet next Oct 13th. This will be the first opportunity
to consider when a member vote should occur.

Mike
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