[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[Henk Hoff]

Since my name is mentioned twice, it might be good to give some light to 
statement of the open issues.

Frederik Ramm schreef:
>
> Anyone suggesting to use ODbL 0.9 un-altered would be out of their mind 
> and thus I assume that nobody does. I have no official OSMF statement on 
> this in English, but Henk Hoff said on talk-de that OSMF expects the 
> current known issues to be ironed out in 1.0, and the phrase "fix 
> problems in 1.1" only applies to such problems that are not known yet.
>
>   
During the Telephone Debate the question was raised whether it would be 
good to bring the 1.0 license up for a vote if we still have serveral 
important open issues that are unanswered.
General feeling within the call (at least that's how I felt it was) was 
that the open issues as mentioned in 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues needs 
to be answered before we put the 1.0 license up for a vote.
This does not necessarily mean that all issues needs to be *resolved* in 
the 1.0 version. Besides: some of the open issues are mere general, like 
"Who is the licensor?"

Cheers,
Henk H.