[OSM-legal-talk] auckland city council copyright notice

[John Smith]

On 1 November 2010 11:44, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> Municipalities shouldn't write licenses; it ain't their job.  It ain't
> their core competence.  Their citizens ain't paying for the city to do
> license composition and maintenance.

Regardless what we'd like, we should be happy they didn't just slap
crown copyright all over everything and are branching out with more
liberal licenses, this sort of mindset change doesn't happen over
night and it's a shame that this sort of thing isn't celebrated,
rather than shunned.