[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL comments from Creative Commons

[80n]

Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons writes:

> While some complexities are introduced by differences in background legal
> doctrines, others are introduced by the ODbL scheme itself.
>

These two points about the complexity of the ODbL are important ones that
probably haven't been discussed as much as they should have been.

As if the ODbL is not complex enough, when you add in the FIL and all the
other considerations that apply to the practical implementation within the
OSM context (eg click-through access for mirrored databases etc) then we
have something that, in my opinion, is near to being unusable.

Given that we have a goal of going from 100,000 contributors to 1 million
complexity is something that will cost the community a lot.  On my personal
list of issues complexity is one that I consider to be a show stopper.

80n

2009/3/21 Jean-Christophe Haessig <jean-christophe.haessig at dianosis.org>

> Le samedi 21 mars 2009 à 19:02 +0100, Ulf Möller a écrit :
> > Thinh Nguyen of Creative Commons has posted detailed comments on the
> > ODbL on the co-ment website.
>
> A large part of this comment focuses on the complexity of the ODbL.
> While simplicity is better, I think we should be allowed a reasonable
> amount of complexity in the writing of the license, if our goal is to
> make a license that can be reused by others, and if it makes the license
> more efficient and suited to our needs.
>
> My point is that licenses like CC or GPL are not that simple either, but
> their extended use makes them well-known and in this case a moderate
> amount of complexity is not a problem.
>
> JC
>
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