Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and "porting" (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Francis Davey
2009/5/26 Russ Nelson : > > Also look at the EU Public License.  It's a reciprocal license for > software (specifically mentions source code).  The most interesting > thing about it is that it was done on the EU Commission level, AND > they got the associated governments to all agree that infringem

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and "porting" (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Russ Nelson
On May 26, 2009, at 9:35 AM, Jordan S Hatcher wrote: > > An occupational hazard of being a lawyer is to always try to hedge, > even a little bit, even when the chance are really remote. So I can't > say that unequivocally Open Data Commons will never go through a > porting process similar to the

[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL, choice of law, and "porting" (and why ODC won't have a porting process)

2009-05-26 Thread Jordan S Hatcher
Hi everyone, I'm afraid that there may be some confusion over the choice of law clause within the ODbL (Section 10.4) and what it means for a "porting process" for the ODbL (and by implication the PDDL). By way of background, Creative Commons has a process where it started out with a licens