Wow the volume's picked up here then huh? It's great to see so many people interested.
First order - the current draft and why isn't it up on the website? Mike Collinson has been ill. That's it. No conspiracy. As soon as he's well (which I believe he almost is) you'll see it. That draft was something the OSMF engaged a large legal firm pro-bono to look at. There were some issues they had but they were mostly minor. Unfortunately the particular people we were dealing with became very busy and despite repeated attempts we've been unable to get in contact with them. Last week I met with a new legal firm and we've been cleared via their pro-bono process to be given legal time to work on the license. They're sending an engagement letter now and when I have that signed you'll all know who the firm is. Because of conflict of interest I can't talk to them about CloudMade stuff (not that I would anyway) and they can't talk to CM about the license with the same people who are helping us. This is normal conflict protection stuff and I went through it all with the previous firm. I'm quite positive about this firm as they seem genuinely interested in helping out and looking at a permissive license rather than the bread and butter restrictive licenses that they're paid for. That's my take on it anyway. The next step after that is for them to review the license with general comments, and against use cases. So once we've engaged them I will ask them to review the use cases on the wiki. When they've done that I'll get their responses and report back here on the outcome. If you have better ideas for what to do please air them here. The use cases are great but I think that if you accept this license won't be 110% perfect, and that we can have later licenses that inherit (ODbL 2.0 or whatever) then the bigger thing to think about is the home for this thing, a body to nurture it and so on. My lack of time on the lists recently makes me sad and I'm trying to catch up with all the posts. Best Steve _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
