[talk-au] Database licence

[James Livingston]

On 05/12/2009, at 11:30 PM, Grant Slater wrote:
> For clarity... the OSM Foundation is not some evil group...
> The OSMF is open, anyone from the community can join. The OSMF Board
> is democratically elected from the OSMF membership.

If anyone who isn't a OSMF member wants to read the discussion, it's available in the archives, with two posts at the end of November and everything so far this month:
http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/

As expected, there is a fair amount of disagreement on whether the ODbL is good, whether the contributor terms are good, whether pro-ODbL people are trying to push it though before things have been sorted out, and whether anti-ODbL people are full of stop-energy and just like to complain.

> Some of the reasons why we which to move away from CC BY-SA:
> http://www.osmfoundation.org/wiki/License/Why_CC_BY-SA_is_Unsuitable

For reference, the two links that are going to be sent to us, which anyone can edit, are:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_Yes
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Why_You_Should_Vote_No