[Osmf-talk] ODbL and Geocoding (was: license changes)

[Christoph Hormann]

On Sunday 14 February 2016, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> [...] Asking lawyers what they think the current
> wording of our current license says about geocoding may be
> interesting, but it is much more interesting to know what we actually
> *want*. And while the issue has been around for years, it seems that
> few actually have an opinion they consider worth arguing for - it
> seems that most people actually don't care much.

Indeed.  I had the same impression with the Collective Database 
Guideline which is now being discussed by the board apparently.  I 
voiced some serious concerns if this is in line with the interests of 
the OSM community[1,2] but got very little reaction.

Of course many people are simply bored by the fact that most license 
discussions end up as unproductive clashes of opposing interests with 
participants pushing their respective agendas rather than trying to 
distill a common standpoint.

[1] 
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Collective_Database_Guideline
[2] 
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2015-November/008306.html


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Christoph Hormann
http://www.imagico.de/