[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Critical Mass for license change-over

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 2 February 2012 15:11, Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at> wrote:
> andrzej zaborowski schrieb:
>> Yes, of course, I think it is Mike DuPont who said "give away".  But
>> obviously we're talking about the grant of rights.
>
>
> Yes, every open soruce license is a grant of rights, as that's the basic
> definition of "open". If there wouldn't be a grant of any rights, no license
> would be needed at all, as copyright law in various countries covers not
> being able to use other people's work pretty well. All we are about is being
> able to use other people's work, though.

Yep.  But then I don't understand what your point is, I think we agree
about the terms.

Cheers