On Mar 15, 2009, at 2:16 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Russ Nelson wrote: >> I don't want a virus, but I like the reciprocal nature of these >> licenses. > > Reciprocal is not the correct term IMHO. Reciprocal would mean that if > you take our data you will have to give us something in return.
It refers to the fact that the license requires you to reciprocate. Just as the license gives you rights, you must reciprocate by sharing those rights with others. No matter how wrong reciprocal might be, it can't be as wrong as "viral". -- Russ Nelson - http://community.cloudmade.com/blog - http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User:RussNelson r...@cloudmade.com - Twitter: Russ_OSM - http://openstreetmap.org/user/RussNelson _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
