[OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 17:35, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:

> However, I have spoken with Steve Coast, founder of the project, and I
> know that he is dead-set against public domain OSM data.  Thus, the
> second best thing to do, if you're going to threaten to sue
> infringers, is a license that clearly spells out what portions of the
> data they can use freely, and what uses are considered infringing.
> The ODbL does a good job of lining that out, and so I recommend that
> you relicense to it.

That reads like "SteveC's personally against it, therefore we have to
do something else". I'd hope the legal process isn't that cabal like
in practice.