[OSM-legal-talk] ODBL Coverage

[Rob Myers]

On 11/16/2010 12:39 PM, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 16/11/10 12:29, Craig Loftus wrote:
>
>> I don't really want to raise the issue again  but I found the new map
>> of ODBL coverage (http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/)
>> interesting as it literally highlights the effect the new license and
>> terms will have on map coverage in the UK.
>
> No it doesn't.
>
> It highlights what might happen if we went ahead now without approaching
> anybody and asking them to relicense.
>
> It says absolutely nothing about what the map might look like after we
> have approached contributors and asked them to relicense.

Rather than viewing it as a very misleading bit of scaremongering, I 
like to view it as a useful tool for tracking how the relicencing is 
going. ;-)

- Rob.