[OSM-talk] odbl

John Smith deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 6 03:03:16 GMT 2011


On 6 March 2011 09:10, john whelan <jwhelan0112 at gmail.com> wrote:
> So basically you are saying that it is not possible to explain it in
> layman's terms.  Thank you for your input.

The new license changes things from something many people understand
to something massively more complex that it's proponents can't even
agree over what it means.

Instead of just relying on copyright it tries to use contract and
database law as well, and this will make things much more complex for
people distributing, since they would need to form contracts with
people copying, but of course this is one point of contention, some
dispute this, but for ODBL to stick beyond copyright a contract has to
be in place otherwise why switch from cc-by-sa in the first place.



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