[OSM-talk] The OSM licence: where we are, where we're going

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I'd like to mention, as Frederik doesn't think there are many of us, 
> that I'm a strong supporter of copyleft. 

I just said that there weren't many copyleft supporters at SOTM 07. Has 
the license panel discussion ever reached audio publication? Because I 
believe the result of the show of hands was spoken so it should be on 
there. Not that this would mean a lot since it is very well possible 
that the folks at SOTM were not representative of the general OSM 
population. I just don't want people to have the impression that I am 
hallucinating when I say that the copyleft fans were a tiny minority.

To be fair, I think that the reason why many at SOTM said they'd favour 
PD over copyleft is that the question was raised after a panel debate on 
licensing during which people were alerted to many of the problems we 
face with our *current* license, including the fact that nobody knows 
whether it holds any water, legally, at all; many may have approved of 
PD out of sheer exhaustion ("well if nothing else works then let's just 
move on"). Presented with a *viable* way of achieving copyleft, they 
might have said something else.

But this is all idle speculation; it would not be too hard to ask our 
contributors.

Bye
Frederik