[OSM-talk] Data Licencing

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen <pere at hungry.com>:

> I suspect a separate list for the legal discussion might either give
> us a dead mailing list because very few of the current project members
> want to spend time on legal stuff, or a project split as the people
> interested in legal stuff come up with interpretations and conclusions
> that are not supported by several of the other active project members.

As long as we keep it as a 'discussion' list rather than a 'decision'  
list it'll be fine. Establishment of the OSM Foundation should also  
help with clarifying the decision-making process.

I think the biggest win of the new list will be that we'll be able to  
fully discuss and research topics which merit discussion, rather than  
keeping quiet because we don't want to overwhelm the talk list. For a  
while I've refrained from posting licence stuff to talk, because it  
puts others off, and I know that others believe the same.

cheers
Richard