[OSM-legal-talk] OSM license change - ODbL - questions

[F. Heinen]

Hi all,

Let me first introduce myself, I am Frank aka Frenzel. I am a community
member of OSM.nl since Aug. 2009, so relatively new but also quite active.
I hope I mail this to the right mailing list.

In the Dutch mailing list already a few times a discussion started on the
license change that OSMF likes to do (or is needed).
But the community doesn't seem to be convinced, are missing answers and no
consensus is found. So herewith some questions from my side which I hope can
clarify
the questions from me (and I guess from more of the community members).
Note: I want to keep this on a human understandable and general level!

1 - What (human understandable) reasons are there to change the OSM license?
2 - What information can be found so the community can read more about it?
3 - Are feasibility studies done on the following levels:
3.1 - Data/DB level - For example how to do with changes of the data where
the original contributor doesn't accept the new license?
3.2 - Contributor level - What the changes are that reasonable amount of
contributors will accept the change?
3.3 - Community emotional level - For example how the community will deal
with data that will not be move where people put in hard work, TLC and free
time (and maybe even money).
4 - Is there any documentation based on what reasons we can convince
companies that donated data to accept the changed license?
5 - Is there a roadmap of this (desired?/obligated?) license change?
6 - Is there a plan on how to implement this change? So a "porting" time
scheme? So old license still active but all that is accepted for ODbL
already presented and put in stats for new DB? So we have some kind of
percentage stats and real map of how many of the original data is ported?
7 - What are the minimum goals that this license change will be accepted?
For example on data level: how much of the OSM data must be put on ODbL to
accept it? So what if only 10% of the data is accepted?

I hope you guys can "shine some light" on my questions.

Regards,

Frenzel
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