[OSM-legal-talk] Usage of ODbL

[Rob Myers]

On 09/30/2010 01:43 PM, John Smith wrote:
> On 30 September 2010 22:32, Rob Myers<rob at robmyers.org>  wrote:
>> And, as I say, not all GPL licenced code is grabbed by GNU.
>
> Maybe so, but they have the option to accept it, the CT will basically
> reject everything, regardless of how much it is likely to improve the
> data set...

GNU has its own "CTs". You have to sign a copyright assignment and get 
your employer to sign a waiver otherwise they won't accept the code.

The CTs won't "reject everything". Just those institutional data sets 
that cannot be accommodated.

- Rob.