[OSM-legal-talk] Open Issues

[Peter Miller]

On 15 Dec 2008, at 01:02, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    I have taken the liberty of putting my most recent little-discussed
> questions onto a new Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues
>
> I believe these questions are really important and answers to them  
> must
> be found before or during the transition; it would be dangerously  
> naive
> IMHO to switch to the new license and think "we can work that out  
> later".
>
> But I may be wrong in this assumption and, as always, anyone is  
> invited
> to amend that page.
>
> I really want to keep the page factual and not introduce any "POV"
> elements, that's why I did not sign it. I suggest that anyone editing
> the page tries the same; If you think my wording is too strong ("we  
> must
> decide blah blah") then just change it to something better ("it  
> would be
> prudent to decide blah blah") or put a whole paragraph into  
> perspective
> or whatever.
>
Thanks for that Frederik. I would however suggest that we avoid the  
legal details where possible and try to just describe in plain english  
what the problem is. My reason for this is that I believe that  we  
might be diverging from legal reality in some aspects but if we stick  
to the core questions we can't go wrong. If you don't mind I may  
rework you text back to the core non-legal question, and put the legal  
technicalities you refer to behind an 'ianal but' warning!


Regards,



Peter

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> Frederik
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