[OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

[Simon Ward]

On Sun, Mar 08, 2009 at 01:23:44AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I agree with both points, but I would like to try and be pragmatic: 
> Don't throw out the reverse engineering clause; just add a clause that 
> explicitly permits releasing Produced Works under a number of named 
> share-alike licenses.

Would it work to generalise this, so as not to rule out future
share‐alike licences?  If you require the basic conditions of
share‐alike: You can use, modify, and redistribute the work, providing
that you give anyone who receives the work the same permissions.

I can also see that if this becomes codified in the ODbL it will
increase the complexity, and may end up being another complete
licence‐worth of text.  The generalisation is a compromise for
compatibility, at the risk of introducing loopholes to be exploited by
the less than scrupulous.

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