[OSM-talk] What if ODBl 1.0 is superseeded by ODBl 2.0

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Donald Allwright
<donald_allwright at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I would be very keen to take a leaf out of the GPL world here, and license
> the data under
> "ODBL 1.0 or later". That means if and when 2.0 comes out (which it surely
> will) the data are automatically
> covered by the new version. When 2.0 does come out, that changes to "ODBL
> 2.0 or later" for all new data
> added to the project after that date. As long as we trust the body
> responsible for creating the ODBL licence to
> create future versions in keeping with the aims of the licence that we
> currently understand, that should be
> no problem.

I don't feel very confident handing the maintainers of the ODBL a
blank cheque for changing the terms under which my works are licensed
at a later date via a "or later" clause given the history of its
revision process.