Here is a quick report from the License Working Group as we have been rather quiet.<br><br>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.<br>
<br>- We now have a simple human-readable summary of the ODbL initiated by us and hosted at <a href="http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/">http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/</a><br><br>
- A very much re-worked Contributor Terms is now virtually complete and you can see a snapshot at <a id="publishedDocumentUrl" class="tabcontent" target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1kqzg8dhr">http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_1kqzg8dhr</a>. Any comments or discussion welcome.<br>
<br>- 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: <a id="publishedDocumentUrl" class="tabcontent" target="_blank" href="http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_2mp8f5shj">http://docs.google.com/View?id=dd9g3qjp_2mp8f5shj</a><br>
<br>- 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.<br>
<br>- The OSMF board will meet next Oct 13th. This will be the first opportunity to consider when a member vote should occur.<br><br>Mike<br><br>