[OSM-legal-talk] importing ODBl data

[Richard Weait]

On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 6:20 AM, Mike  Dupont
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:

> I think it is a great error to introduce the CTs and it is a great
> error to put faith in the OSMF board who show no responsibility,
> better to put faith in the creative commons board who at least listen
> to people and care about porting licenses.

The Creative Commons (board):
- advised OSM not to use CC licenses as they "license creative works, not data."
- declined to co-develop ODbL with OSM and lead to creation of OpenDataCommons.

OSMF and LWG and the OSM community at large have listened to a great
many opinions and ideas and adopted the best of them.