[OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

[Rob Myers]

Which particular FUD do you have in mind? ;-)

*Any* licence will carry legal risks. Paying for a proprietary dataset 
without talking the licence through with a lawyer would be silly. There 
is no reason why a free licence should be any different. "Simple" 
licences are not necessarily easier to interpret.

Public domain dedication is problematic in jurisdictions where copyright 
and/or moral rights are inalienable. CC's original dedication system and 
the new CC0 system both hit this problem. Basing a business on dedicated 
material is therefore also a risk.

It would be very useful to know which licence ambiguities you feel the 
new proposals don't address.

- Rob.