[OSM-legal-talk] [talk] New site about the license change

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/17/10 04:26, Anthony wrote:
> They left what process?  The goal of the process was not to find a
> license like the ODbL.  The goal of the process was to address the sui
> generis database right within the CC framework.

This is not a contradiction. The ODbL could well have been "the way to 
address data in the CC framework". I'd avoid talking specifically of the 
"sui generis database right" because that was clearly not an issue in 
the beginning; the issue they tried to solve was that "no one understood 
the legal aspects of data very clearly, no one could figure out an 
algorithm for when copyright applied and when it didn't, and everyone 
wanted a solution."

I'm not a CC insider; I have my knowledge mainly from stuff that John 
Wilbanks has published. The above quote is from 
http://blogs.nature.com/wilbanks/2007/12/ which tells a story that 
starts in October 2006.

Bye
Frederik