[OSM-legal-talk] Open Issues

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Peter Miller wrote:
> I would however suggest that we avoid the  
> legal details where possible and try to just describe in plain english  
> what the problem is. 

Well - in plain English there is no problem. The questions I am asking 
arise from the legal construct! There is no core non-legal question 
there; I would not have dreamt of asking these questions had I not read 
the ODbL draft.

If you want to rework the text back to core non-legal questions then you 
might as well delete it ;-)

And about the "ianal but": Any lawyer or person with access to a lawyer 
is welcome to answer the questions (or explain why they are not relevant 
which would be just as welcome). Until then, these are open questions 
for the lawyer and non-lawyer alike, and they do not lose their 
importance just because they have been formulated by a normal thinking 
person. Our users, when asked to relicense their contributions, will 
want to have answers to these questions, and they're not lawyers either ;-)

Bye
Frederik