[OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2

[David Groom]

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From: "Anthony" <osm at inbox.org>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 3:43 PM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] New phrase in section 2


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> On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:00 AM, Francis Davey <fjmd1a at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The better question to ask at this stage is, what is it for not what
>> does it do? I didn't draft or propose this wording, but someone must
>> have done and someone, or some people, must have an idea of what its
>> function is supposed to be.
>>
>> It may be that a better wording to do (whatever it turns out to be
>> for) will solve the problem, or it may be that there's a policy
>> argument, which can be sorted out first before you get to the wording.
> 
> I have no idea why it was actually put there, but one positive thing
> it does (besides nullifying the ODbL) is that it puts us all on an
> equal footing with OSMF.

Could you :

a) explain the above last paragraph; and
b) define "us"; is it OSM contributors, OSM data users, or some other "us"

David
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