[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Rob Myers]

On 09/01/2010 09:15 AM, 80n wrote:
>
> Nobody is saying that CC-BY-SA is perfect.

But they are saying that it is unsuitable.

> It isn't but it works. Look at how quickly Waze reacted. Not bad for
> a  broken license, eh?

Rely on people's good intentions is not a general solution.

> The great thing about the current license is that there's no coercion.

There's no coercion in the new licence or in the changeover. You are 
free to decline and to continue to pretend that BY-SA is a suitable 
licence for data.

> If you don't like it or the licensed doesn't work for your use case then
> you can just go ahead and start your own fork.  That's what those who
> are in favour of ODbL should have done two years ago.

You can't fork BY-SA to ODbL + DbCL, so this wouldn't be possible. If 
only the CT's had allowed it...

> Instead we now have this ugly mess which is set to string out for a very
> long time with continual disruption and damage to the project.

Some people think it's being strung out, others think it's being rushed.

> Frederik's argument that we cannot predict what future generations will
> want is quite fallacious.  We have a responsibility to do the right

Frederik's argument is entirely correct. We should empower them to do 
the right thing.

> thing now and not leave a mess someone else to sort out later.

And we are doing the right thing now.

- Rob.