[OSM-legal-talk] License update

[MJ Ray]

"Peter Miller" <peter.miller at itoworld.com> wrote:
> > From: MJ Ray [...]
> > Not *the* licence project. *That* licence project, making use cases
> > and testing things against them.  I don't see how that connects to the
> > OSMF licence development work except at one point => it is a tangent.
>
> I don't follow your argument. Use Cases and Validating against Use Cases
> seems an entirely appropriate method to ensuring that we end up with
> something fit for purpose. It is a technique that will be familiar to most
> software developers which is a bonus.

Sure.  They're interesting tests once we see the licence, but I don't
understand how continuing the previous thread much further would
inform the OSMF licence development work more, so getting upset at the
lack of continuation seems a bit odd.

[...]
> I am keen that the final licence agreement is checked by independent
> competent lawyers drawn from our target commercial user community. Otherwise
> we won't have tested to licence effectively.

Well, if you can make that happen, great, but I wonder whether the
target commercial user community's lawyers are likely to tell this
list if they spot a vulnerability.  The benefits of doing so have not
been made clear, really.

(By the way, I'd find it easier to reply if you continued the previous
thread instead of sending new mail and didn't include lines containing
only one space.  They're just small things, really, though.)

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