[OSM-legal-talk] Restricting future licenses

[Rob Myers]

On 08/19/2010 01:17 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 7:58 AM, Chris Browet<cbro at semperpax.com>  wrote:
>
>> They definitely need to define that, it would help. "an OSI endorsed free
>> and open license", maybe...
>
> OSI don't endorse Open Data Licenses as far as I know.  Open Data
> Commons do and they even consulted with the OSM community in writing
> ODbL.

OSI are looking to use Open Knowledge Foundation's Free Knowledge 
Definition -

http://blog.okfn.org/2010/08/04/update-on-open-source-initiatives-adoption-of-the-open-knowledge-definition/

I certainly wouldn't use OSI approval as any kind of gold standard, though.

- Rob.