[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Mon, 18 Apr 2011 09:22:22 -0700 (PDT)
Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:

> > To answer my own question - I guess that 'reasonably calculated to 
> > make...' suggests you should include an attribution notice and ask 
> > downstream users to respect it - although it doesn't mandate any 
> > particular choice of licence. So we would still have the
> > attribution requirement as now.  
> 
> That's also my understanding (but that one's been hashed out on
> talk-gb ad tediosum).

So the new licence is not clear to a majority of mappers concerning
these points - derived works, produced works, need for attribution.
So why are adopting something that we don't understand?