[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL License + Outline Procedure

[Peter Miller]

On 27 Feb 2009, at 10:09, Grant Slater wrote:

> The OSMF License Working Group is excited and pleased to announce the
> completion of legal drafting and review by our legal counsel of the  
> new
> proposed license, the Open Database License Agreement (ODbL).
>

Thank you for your work to date; clearly a lot of work has gone into  
this.

We will now pass this information to our own legal people for review.  
We will publish their response to the community as soon as it is  
available. If we have any interim questions we will post those to the  
list as well.

I have a question about how we manage the Use Cases wiki page during  
the consultation phase... The legal people have responded to one set  
of Use Cases (excellent news indeed), however the wiki can be changed  
at any time so the legal view will become out-of-date as the Use Case  
text is updated.

Can I suggest that a separate .pdf document is published which  
contains the Use Case version that was actually consulted on and the  
response from the legal people to that version? I suggest that we then  
revert the Use Case wiki page to the version prior to the legal  
comment being added and that we then update the text for the Use Cases  
in response to this feedback we have received.

We should then possibly seek a further review of any Use Cases where  
the text has been altered (the WIki 'diff' feature will allow us to  
identify which Use Cases have updated between the date that the legal  
people took their initial version and the current version).

I also suggest that we delete the ' A brief for the proposed SA  
licence ' section of the Use Case page as that is now historical, it  
may not actually reflect the license and is a distraction (note that I  
was the main author of it, so no one should be offended by doing that!).


Regards,



Peter Miller
ITO World Ltd