Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF

2012-07-04 Thread Pekka Sarkola
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF

2012-07-04 Thread Jaakko Helleranta.com
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 Sent from my BlackBerry® device from Digicel --

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF

2012-07-04 Thread Chris Hill
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

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] MoU between OSM and NLSF

2012-07-04 Thread Mikel Maron
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