<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">>> I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and<br>>license<br>>> the data under<br>>> "ODBL 1.0 or later". That means if and when 2.0 comes out (which it<br>>surely<br>>> will) the data are automatically<br>>> covered by the new version. When 2.0 does come out, that changes to "ODBL<br>>> 2.0 or later" for all new data <br>><br>>I agree completely.<br>>If we don't do this we will have this mess again in a <br>>few years.<br><br>Or more likely, a few months with ODBL 1.1, which fixes a use case that no-one thought of. With the best will in the world, it's not going to be perfect first time
round, and just as GPLv3 made late changes as a result of an agreement between Microsoft and Novell, there could be a legal case somewhere in the world which highlights the need for a change.<br><br>Donald<br></div></div></div><br>
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