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

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 5:36 PM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> On 22 Mar 2009, at 06:08, 80n wrote:
> The complexity arguments are largely superfluous.
> [...]
> I get in my car every day and drive to work without knowing
> how the engine management system works but it's not a 'show stopper'.

I disagree with you there Steve. The problem is that *we're the guys
building the engine*, and yet we don't know how the engine management
system works.

Whilst it doesn't need to be simple enough for *everyone* to
understand (you can do the "I trust him and he knows what he's talking
about" approach that you take with your car), when I can't get my head
around how the license impacts the OpenCycleMap operations (am I
running a collective or derived db? Do I need to release PostGIS
dumps? Can I CC-BY-SA license the tiles?) then there is a complexity
problem, and it probably needs more serious addressing than dismissing
it as "superfluous".

Cheers,
Andy