[OSM-legal-talk] New license status

[Jukka Rahkonen]

Mike Collinson <mike at ...> writes:

> 
> Here is a quick report from the License Working Group as we have been rather
quiet.Since the proposal we made to the OSMF board in August and at SOTM 2009,
we have been working on a number of small issues raised but now getting on track
to make our final formal license change proposal to OSMF members.- We now have a
simple human-readable summary of the ODbL initiated by us and hosted at
http://www.opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/summary/

My human eyes can't make out how long time ODbL will protect the contents of
database.  Is it the same as in EU database directive "Directive 96/9/EC of the
European Parliament and of the Council of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection
of databases" which says:
Article 10
Term of protection
1. The right provided for in Article 7 shall run from the date of completion of
the making of the database. It shall expire fifteen years from the first of
January of the year following the date of completion.

Will all contents of OSM year 2009 database be in public domain first of
January, 2025?