[OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2014-05-16 12:44 GMT+02:00 Jean-Marc Liotier <jm at liotier.org>:

> While of course the contributor terms are governed by English law, I would
> like to cite Article 2 of the French Code Civil: "Legislation provides only
> for the future; it has no retrospective operation". It was written since
> 1803 and still applies today. Maybe as a French citizen I am suffering from
> cultural bias in seeing that principle as important, but I suspect that
> something like that exists in English law because even the English don't
> really wants to be ruled by laws that don't exist yet.



the option to change the license into some other free and open license is
current, it is not in the future (applying it and letting the contributors
vote on an actually proposed license is in the future).

cheers,
Martin
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