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

[Peter Miller]

On 27 Feb 2009, at 13:05, Jukka Rahkonen wrote:

> Grant Slater <openstreetmap at ...> writes:
>
>>
>> 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).
>
> I am sure that this is going to be fun. Legal adviser makes a fine  
> new start for
> a never ending PD-Share alike or GPL style/LGPL style debate with  
> comments like
> this on the wiki use cases page:
>
> "My goal as a producer of Free (as in freedom) works is to enable (and
> encourage) others to create new and innovative Free works based on  
> mine, so that
> the catalogue of Free works available to the world is growingly  
> enriched by new
> contributors. This wealth of new works is my reward for contributing  
> in the
> first place. I don't understand why anybody would be allowed to pick  
> random
> pieces of Free works, produce something new with it, and not share  
> it back. If
> they have a problem with sharing back to the community, they should  
> just not use
> a Free work in the first place, get their data elsewhere and  
> possibly pay for
> it. --Pshunter 12:21, 27 February 2009 (UTC)"
>

I think we are going to need some carefully management of the Use Case  
page over the review period. Should we use the talk page to discuss  
issues with individual use cases? or should the main use-case page be  
used? or should this list be used?!

Personally I would prefer the Use Case talk page to have a heading for  
each Use Case and have the main Use Case page only containing the  
current proposed text. If people don't object this this then I will   
create entries for each Use Case on the discussion page and move the  
existing comments from the front to the discussion page.

My reason for using the wiki approach is that the discussions for each  
Use Case can happen in parallel without elements of the discussion  
getting lost over time the way they do on a list, or dissipate into  
the normal free/sa pit of despair!

With reference to Pshunter's comments I am not clear what his actual  
point it, but I will pick that up on the talk page if people agree  
with the approach.


Regards,


Peter


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