[OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.

[80n]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 5:06 PM, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 4:53 PM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has the ODbL been finalized yet ? If not it will either need to read
> > something like "ODbL version X or later".
>
> The "or later" seems to be included in the text of ODBL S4.4 (unlike
> GPL etc where its a per-project choice) with the slight difference
> that ODBL doesn't specify who's allowed to publish the next version.
>
> In fact, isn't this a controversial paragraph anyway, since it gives
> whoever publishes the licenses power to do whatever they want with the
> data, simply by writing a new version?
>

The ODbL license is owned by OpenDataCommons:
http://www.opendatacommons.org/about/advisory-council/  I believe this group
of people controls future versions of this and the FIL license.

The Open Knowledge Foundation http://www.okfn.org/projects claims that Open
Data Commons is one of their projects.  I am not sure how that relationship
works though.

80n



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