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

2009-01-28 Thread MJ Ray
Rob Myers wrote: > Do you have any models in mind? CC and the FSF have been through a > couple of rounds of licence revision over the years and the most recent > ones are easy to review. I think I tried to get involved with both processes, so I'll offer a few observations... CC's 3.0 process see

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, agg

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 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. GNU licence

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 aft