Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future license upgrades, the heart of the matter

2009-01-27 Thread 80n
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: * WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted; If section 11 of the GDFL 3.1 is anything to go by [1], then pretty much anything is possible. This clause was specifically engineered to permit Wikipedia

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future license upgrades, the heart of the matter

2009-01-27 Thread Rob Myers
Frederik Ramm wrote: * WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted; * WHO can make these changes (whom do we trust to make them); and * HOW will such changes become vetted by the community, if at all. These are the decisions that can absolutely not be postponed until after

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future license upgrades, the heart of the matter

2009-01-27 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 08:59:26PM +, 80n wrote: On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 12:41 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: * WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted; If section 11 of the GDFL 3.1 is anything to go by [1], then pretty much anything is possible.

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Future license upgrades, the heart of the matter

2009-01-27 Thread Simon Ward
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 01:41:06AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: * WHAT changes can be made to the license once it is accepted; I think this should be limited to avoid overstepping. We define the basic things we want the licence to do—collective attribution, share alike for derived data sets,