[OSM-legal-talk] Factual Information License and Produced Works?

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Mon Mar 2 12:04:41 GMT 2009


Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> When the community is asked to vote on the license change it is the FIL that
>> they need to consider not the ODbL.
> 
> I propose that we start working on the wording of the messages that 
> users will receive, i.e. the initial E-Mail, and the dialogue messages 
> they see on osm.org when they are asked to say yes to the license change 
> (plus the notices greeting those who newly sign up afterwards). These 
> things are an important part of the license change and are likely to be 
> legally very relevant in many jurisdictions.

Somebody certainly needs to work on that. I have the technology 
implemented to support the procedure described in the transition plan 
but we will need the words to plugin to the various screens.

Tom

-- 
Tom Hughes (tom at compton.nu)
http://www.compton.nu/




More information about the legal-talk mailing list