[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Rob Myers]

On 08/05/2010 12:11 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 5 August 2010 21:02, Grant Slater<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>  wrote:
>> On 4 August 2010 22:25, Liz<edodd at billiau.net>  wrote:
>>> As you realise, in my jurisdiction, CC-by-SA is a better licence than ODbL, as
>>> it has been well checked and has government use.
>>> In other jurisdictions the matter is different.
>>>
>>
>> [citation needed]
>
> I can only assume she meant "better" in the sense that various
> Australian governments have gotten their lawyers to evaluated cc
> licenses and actually published data under it, it took a lot of time
> and effort from various parties to get the government to open up data
> that much, all bets are off as to how long it would take to get data
> under a different open license, let alone something as specific as
> ODBL...

The conversation we had recently on this list indicated that three years 
from after the next Australian election would be the minimum timescale.

- Rob.