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

[Chris Fleming]

On 17/07/10 10:00, 80n wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Chris Fleming <me at chrisfleming.org 
> <mailto:me at chrisfleming.org>> wrote:
>
>
>     Although the intent of ODBl is to provide the protections we
>     thought we were getting with CC-BY-SA; if we were to go to
>     something *completely* different then I can image these
>     discussions getting *really* nasty.
>
> Chris
> Do try to pay attention and keep up with the thread ;)
opps :)

Just reading that now.

>
> Diane Peters of Creative Commons posted the following statement in 
> this thread a few hours ago:
> "There are a number of fundamental differences between CC's licenses 
> and ODbL that at least from CC's point of view make the two quite 
> different."
>
> ODbL is something "completely" different.  In addition the content 
> license and the contributor terms have no parallel with CC-BY-SA.  
> Structurally there are big differences.
>
I don't disagree, I think that I was just trying to make the point that 
the *intent* in terms of having a Share Alike component and having some 
form of Attribution is present in both licenses? Admittedly in a very 
different way.

Anyway, it looks like it's stopped raining outsite so I going to go out 
and do some mapping :)

Cheers
Chris



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