Chris, Kate, Paul and Jaakko,
Thanks about your comments. Here is few re-comments:
This is Memorandum of Understanding, not an agreement. I think Wikipedia
(again) explains carefully the differences between MoU and an agreement:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memorandum_of_understanding. This
I'm open to change title
of the document, if you have good one.
MOU
- A brief document to clarify the worries of some in the OSM community about
the compatibility of the NLSF Open Data license with OSM ODbL license + OSM's
CTs?
:)
Cheers,
-J
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I'm cautious about quoting Wikipedia especially about anything legal,
but it rightly says a MoU is an agreement between two or more parties.
An understanding is an agreement. One party is the National Land Survey
of Finland, but who is the other party? OSM? What is that? How am I (or
more
Without going into the details of this particular case, I can clarify that OSM
Foundation is able to enter (and has entered) into agreements (framed as MoU or
otherwise) with government bodies. This has not been for OSM's benefit, but
typically because governments sometimes require this kind of