[OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1

[Rob Myers]

John Wilbanks wrote:

> ps - Those of you interested in copyleft and freedom might want to 
> interview Stallman on this issue as well. 

I tend not to agree with him on non-software issues but I would be very 
interested to know what he thinks, particularly since he has just been 
through a major copyleft licence revision process.

> He lives down the hall from 
> our offices and has interesting opinions on the topic of how often one 
> should use licenses to achieve one's goals, and what impacts one should 
> enable.

The ODL is more Share-Alike than copyleft.

If database right and contract law are what the proprietary world are 
using then ironising that in order to protect against it might be 
acceptable. It does make me uncomfortable though.

- Rob.