[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[Ulf Möller]

Here's a short summary:

OSMF was represented by Nick Black and Michael Collinson with Grant 
Slater and Henk Hoff joining in later on.

There were 150 participants on IRC, and about 20 on the conf call, with 
about 10 of them speaking.

Three main aspects were:

* Discussion on the license and implementation plan mainly between Peter 
Miller (ITO) and OSMF
* Discussion on how the process so far is seen by the German community 
in particular
* Factual questions on the ODbL

Some important points:

OSFM is trying to get ODbL 1.0 in place as soon as possible and fix 
problems in version 1.1 later on.

They would have hoped for more input from the community regarding the 
terms that users have to sign up to to upload data. (?)

The Use Cases were given to OSMF's legal counsil, the response is 
exptected next week.

The Working Group didn't have time to look into the Open Issues so far. 
Grant will take care of that now.

Even though that means that a number of fundamental questions remain 
unanswered, no reason is seen to change the timeline.

However, the time between the publication of the license and the vote 
will be increased from 3 to 10 days so as to allow legal review of the 
license.

OSMF will try to communicate the purpose of the license change better 
with emphasis on the ShareAlike issue. They will try to address the 
German, Italian, etc communities better.