[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Simon Ward]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 10:01:08PM +1000, James Livingston wrote:
> * It also uses contract law, which makes things a *lot* more complicated

Despite my strong bias towards copyleft, I thought this was a problem
with the license.  Unfortunately people thought that because laws about
rights to data are vastly different that contract law is needed to
balance it out—it’s apparently unfair otherwise.  I don’t really believe
that.

> Since we're not voting on ODbL, but ODbL + contributor terms, there's also:
> * Changing the licence in future may not require your permission (if you do contribute for a while, or are un-contactable for three weeks)

I didn’t realise it was that short a time period. :/

Simon
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