[OSM-talk] License to kill

[SteveC]

On 5 Mar 2009, at 01:11, Peter Miller wrote:

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> On 5 Mar 2009, at 00:29, SteveC wrote:
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>>> For your interest my company's lawyer (acting for ITO World Ltd)  
>>> is hoping to have her response together in relation to the license  
>>> by the end of tomorrow. My company will review her comments and  
>>> hope to be able to make that document publicly available to the  
>>> community by the end of this week. She may also give opinion on  
>>> some Use Cases and Open Issues which could be useful.
>>
>> Great. Are those opinions in relation to ITO!s business or from the  
>> point of view purely of the use cases?
>
> They will be from ITO's business perspective and we will focus  
> mainly on Use Cases that matter to our business however we are in  
> many ways a 'typical' business as as such our advice may well be of  
> relevant to other businesses, especially ones using the same Use  
> Cases and particularly ones that operate in the UK.
>
> We will also look at whether the license works for the project as a  
> whole because we want that to work as well however we would  
> encourage other to also get legal opinion from there perspectives.  
> If they can share the advise with the OSM/ODbL community then so  
> much the better.

Cool

> A 'pure' OSM perspective should of course come from the OSMF lawyer  
> and I hope you/the 'licensing group' will be able to explain some of  
> the outstanding Use Cases to him so he can give an opinion. Is that  
> going to be possible within the consultation phase?

I don't see why not - Grant add to the agenda and lets discuss.

Best

Steve