[OSM-legal-talk] regarding ODC and OKF

[OJ W]

On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Ulf Möller <usenet at ulfm.de> wrote:
> John Wilbanks schrieb:
>
>> In terms of OKF, hosting licenses is hard, and versioning licenses is
>> really hard, but OKF has been around for a while and is a solid group of
>> folks. If they are going to host your license you are way ahead of the
>> game in terms of having a group that is smart and honest and open in
>> your camp.
>
> According to their web site, they are a Company Limited by Guarantee. I
> couldn't find any information on the owners.
>
> Regardless of who they are, why should we give them complete control
> over the license? It seems, if they were to decide to for example make
> our project PD, neither the OSMF Board, nor the OSMF members, nor anyone
> else could do anything about it?
>

would it be better for someone like FSF to host the license?