[OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?

[Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists)]

Peter Miller wrote:
>Sent: 02 March 2009 8:57 AM
>To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
>Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Who is ODC and why do we trust them?
>
>
>On 2 Mar 2009, at 08:29, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>>    Grant wrote in his announcement:
>>
>> "... Therefore, we have worked with the license authors and others to
>> build a suitable home where a community and process can be built
>> around
>> it. Its new home is with the Open Data Commons
>> http://www.opendatacommons.org."
>>
>snip
>>
>> The December 23 board meeting minutes say: "No hosting option for the
>> licence is currently available and therefore OSMF may need to host.",
>> which suggests that the ODC/OKFN idea is a relatively young one. The
>> same meeting minutes also reported that "all communications with
>> Jordan
>> [Hatcher] had broken down"; it is good to see that this seemed to be
>> temporary, but still this does not exactly give the impression that
>> the
>> ODC/OKFN connection is a well-thought-out and future-proof thing.
>> Sounds
>> more like clutching at straws as far as I'm concerned.
>>
>
>I suggest we create a OSM wiki page for OpenDataCommons and also the
>Open Knoweldege Fundation and add what information we can gleen from
>our research to it. We will be getting our lawyer to look into this
>aspect of the license and will report when we know more. However....
>the legal entity is Open Knowledge Foundation and the directors/
>trustees there should be in charge of any changes. We probably need to
>know a lot more about that organisation and the people behind it. I do
>however think it looks like a very valuable organisation with a very
>useful initiative.
>
>Btw, we don't have any published minutes from the OSMF for Jan or Feb
>09 yet so we have no visibility of what decisions they have been
>making which is a shame. I will email them and suggest that they
>publish them to help in this process.
>

The Jan meeting minutes will be up in the next few days. The February draft
minutes will be made available when we have concluded the meeting, which was
split in two halves, the second half is on Wednesday.

Cheers

Andy

>
>Regards,
>
>
>Peter Miller
>ITO World Ltd
>
>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
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