[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Progressing OSM to a new dataLicence regime

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> There are negative sides to a copyright assignment. A) We probably 
> wouldn't get one from e.g. AND or MASSGIS (although I'm speculating). B) 
> It would mean the scenario I mentioned to Frederik, where a commercial 
> company could sue a license violator, couldn't happen, because they 
> would no longer be the copyright holder.

C) the foundation would become hugely more important, and with that the 
decision-making processes inside the Foundation and so on would suddenly 
be under much more scrutiny than they are now, and we'd be spending 90% 
of our time squabbling over how a certain vote might have ended 
differently if only this and that. Not good. I like the Foundation to be 
as unimportant as possible.

Bye
Frederik