[OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

[Jordan S Hatcher]

On 12 May 2009, at 03:17, Peter Miller wrote:

>
> I have just concluded an email discussion with Jordan following our
> lawyers review of 1.0 who has answered some points but is now saying
> that he would need someone to pay him to answer more of them which
> leaves things in a rather unsatisfactory state given that I am not
> prepared to pay two lawyers to talk to each other! We have not had any
> response to the review from the OSMF council to date.



Just to clarify, Peter, I spent some time this past Autumn reviewing  
the comments from your lawyer, for free, and sent to you privately.   
This spring, I've been focused on the new drafts of the ODbL / DbCL,  
and had less time to respond to specific comments, including from  
users who have been kind enough to share their legal advice with the  
community.

As I also made clear in our email exchange, I'm happy to, within my  
resources, address issues that relate to the Open Data Commons project  
and not to you, Peter Miller, specifically.  CC, for example, doesn't  
offer the level of detailed advice on use of their licenses on their  
site that you seek. My offer to meet with your lawyers (for a fee) was  
based on my opinion that there were several basic elements of open  
licensing in general, and the ODbL in particular, that your lawyer did  
not seem to understand. As such, I offered to meet with you and your  
counsel to go through them so that you both can have a better  
understanding of the issues present.

Thanks again for your understanding.

~Jordan

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Mr. Jordan S Hatcher, JD, LLM

jordan [at] opencontentlawyer dot com

More details at:
<http://www.jordanhatcher.com>

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