So I've looked through the changes back from wilson sonsini and as they suggest they need clarification. Mostly they are minor or reducing a few repetitive sentences here and there. Personally I don't think waving around this list the document with tracked changes switched on is going to be helpful as it's just a list of deleted commas, de-capitalised words and the odd comment. I think waving it around in conjunction with a list of the reasons for each change will be far, far more conducive to a constructive debate as we all repeatedly acknowledge we're not experts on various obscure branches of intellectual property law. Thus:
At their suggestion I'm setting up a meeting with them this week and I've asked Jordan if he can virtually attend on the phone. I will build a list of the changes and the reasons for them and throw those here. I'll ping this list as soon as I have a time for the meeting, and as soon as I have the list of reasons behind each change. I feel uncomfortable just sharing the document with changes that I've been given. I feel Jordan should be given time to respond as it's as much a public peer critique of his work as it is comments for us. As I said I also feel a list of reasons for each change would be very worthwhile. I also want to make sure wilson sonsini are aware that their comments may be made public in undigested form. Therefore I have asked Jordan to take a look and I have asked him if he feels comfortable with not looking at changes before they go out or if he would like time to respond. I will build the list of reasons as soon as I see them and ship them here. I will ask wilson sonsini where they are comfortable with comments being made public and if we need to put in place more structure so I can report here with a more digested form going forward so we avoid all this. I've found the list of use cases very helpful and I've asked wilson sonsini to review them and say whether they work with the license or not. I don't have a time frame for this but as soon as I have an estimate from them (hopefully they will review by the time I meet them this week) I'll let you all know. I will pass their feedback on each use case directly here and based on that we can make any changes required. Hopefully there won't be many. Best Steve _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
