[OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is publication/distribution?

[Peter Miller]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: legal-talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org [mailto:legal-talk-
> bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
> Sent: 06 October 2008 16:08
> To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
> Subject: [Spam] Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New license: What is
> publication/distribution?
> 
> Peter Miller wrote:
> 
> > I don't like the phrase 'submit your request', it sounds very
> > hierarchical.
> > Given that the OSMF I still being very silent about what they are
> > doing and
> > not doing around the licence I suggest that we continue to work on
> > these
> > definitions ourselves here and I suggest that we use the wiki page to
> > capture our conclusions.
> 
> If you wish. I intensely dislike using a wiki for discussions so will
> stay here. Nor do I personally see why we need this brief - ODL
> already does what I want a licence to do.

Legal-talk is good for talk and yes, it should probably stay here, but the
wiki is good for capturing agreed changes so that others can see what was
agreed without having to trawl back through every email. After all, the Map
Features wiki page is purely a summary of the conversations on talk about
individual issues but people wouldn't expect newbies to read all of talk to
learn how to tag.

I put the current version of the brief on the wiki because I want to avoid
being the 'owner' of the current draft of the brief.

I know you are happy to read the licence text; however I still think a more
approachable document has value, particularly if we find things we want to
be change. I can almost read legal text, but I can't write it, that's what
lawyers are for.


Thanks,



Peter


> 
> cheers
> Richard
> 
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