[OSM-legal-talk] A quick thought on writing our own license
Iván Sánchez Ortega
ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org
Tue Mar 13 16:25:00 GMT 2007
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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