[OSM-legal-talk] "A Creative Commons iCommons license"

Simon Ward simon at bleah.co.uk
Sat Feb 28 23:52:26 GMT 2009


On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 06:41:11AM -0800, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Some people called Wilson Sonsini have advised us to use ODbL in a manner
> which is not, AIUI, the manner recommended by the licence co-author, who one
> would presume understands these things.
> 
> And here I am debating with an OSMF board member who appears to be arguing
> _against_ the licence being recommended by OSMF.
> 
> What on earth is going on?

Review.

Does a member of the board have to agree just because they are on the board?
If the licence has flaws, they really should be ironed out if at all
possible before the licence change is progressed.

Simon
-- 
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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