[OSM-legal-talk] A quick thought on writing our own license

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Martes, 13 de Marzo de 2007 15:12, Tom Chance escribió:
> Having been to a few seminars, conferences, etc. where CC licenses were
> drafted, debated and so on, I just want to emphasise that writing a good
> license is *not* trivial.

I'll add that a license for a given country (jurisdiction) is not trivial, but 
a license valid internationally is pretty difficult to draft.

> If we do use another license, or write our own, we should be mindful of
> this and seek as much legal advice from around the world as possible.

Not really: just find someone with knowledge about international copyright 
laws and WIPO traties. He (or she) should know about differences and 
similarities between jurisdictions.

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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>

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