[Osmf-talk] New license change proposal status

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009, Matt Amos wrote:
> i'm not saying that ODbL is ideal - i never have. i'm saying that CC
> BY-SA is totally, utterly, irrecoverably broken and ODbL is the best
> alternative we have at the moment.

I'm not going to accept "this is the best at the moment"
I'm not going to relicence, because in my jurisdiction a database licence is 
completely untested. 
Copyright does have some legal support in my jurisdiction, but copyright does 
NOT extend to facts in a database in Australia. Copyright can be applied to 
the design of the database and its tables. However a High Court ruling did not 
accept that copyright extended to facts assembled without creativity.

My legal education comes from the "University of Life", not a formal legal 
education, but CC-by-SA offers more for my data here and now.
Given a three way choice I'd go CC-by-SA otherwise PD.

Liz