[OSM-talk] Open Database Licence

[SteveC]

On 16 Sep 2008, at 12:09, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Steve Chilton wrote:
>> Webmapper blogged yesterday about the recent OpenStreetMap Users  
>> Day in
>> Holland (http://www.webmapper.net/), where Henk (and others)
>> presented/discussed the possible move to ODL licensing.
>> Could someone summarise where we are on the licence issue for the
>> Opengeodata blog or the wiki.
>
> I'll summarise here: We have no changes to report since the last
> Opengeodata blog entry about the licensing. The last "official"
> statement I heard was at this year's SOTM conference where we were  
> told
> that the license draft was undergoing review by "a second set of legal
> eyes" or something like that.
>
> I suspect that the fact that Jordan Hatcher, the brain behind much of
> the initial draft, has taken on a new job (which made it impossible  
> for
> him to talk at SOTM) has slowed down things considerably. Also, I had
> the impression that Richard Fairhurst was the foundation officer most
> active on the topic of discussing, finding, and implementing a new
> license, and Richard has not stood for re-election... (but him being
> most active may just be a misconception because he took on the role of
> communicating with the broader public while everyone else sweated in
> private).
>
> Put in other words: The license debate looks pretty much stalled if  
> you
> ask me.

Absolutely not, I spent half a day working on it last week and it will  
get another half day this week. I was going to update everybody then  
but it's not quite there yet.

Best

Steve