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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Dec 3 16:21:09 GMT 2010


On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 10:39 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Rather, as Francis pointed out: "A mistake? Someone infelicitously drafting
> the licence? It does happen you know :-)."
>
> Or, as ever with OSM, never attribute to conspiracy that which can be
> adequately explained by cock-up.

The whole thing is a mistake, but I find it hard to believe that the
wording of the license was an accident.  The fact that it got re-added
in 1.2 was probably an accident, but the appearance of it in 0.9?  How
could it be an accident?



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