[OSM-talk] "There Is No Cabal"

[Dave Stubbs]

2009/3/4 Ulf Möller <usenet at ulfm.de>:
> Frederik Ramm schrieb:
>
>>> then it emerges that this was an intentional change requested by the OSM
>>> Foundation.
>>
>> I haven't seen this emerging anywhere. (In fact, the OSM foundation,
>> represented by their board of directors, seems to have been remarkably
>> un-involved as we have heard from 80n who serves on the board.)
>
> True. Re-reading the message at
> http://lists.okfn.org/pipermail/odc-discuss/2009-March/000026.html, the
> change request is attributed to the Foundation's lawyer, not to the
> Foundation itself.
>
> However, it is described as "an effort to simplify some of the licensing
> issues around being able to use a database to produce a work when
> using other sources", and not as an accident.
>

But when you read the use cases on the wiki it's quite clear that the
lawyer who answered those (when he answered those, whenever that was)
believed that SA was in place. Which puts it back into the realms of
unintended side-effect and cock-up.

Dave