On 05/12/2009 21:31, Elizabeth Dodd wrote: > The proposed licence is not a benefit to Australians in my view.
You have generously qualified this with "in my view" and I should point out that I disagree with all the force I can muster. I spent about two hours this morning writing a pretty detailed e-mail, with all the case law citations you could want, explaining how the recent Australian High Court judgement followed Rural v Feist in the US, and therefore required the contract approach of ODbL rather than the copyright-only approach of CC-BY-SA. I don't think you have at all answered the points in that, and therefore I stand by the viewpoint that in Australia, ODbL has the best chance of any open, non-clickwrap licence of protecting OSM's data. CC-BY-SA will not protect it at all. The e-mail is here: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/osmf-talk/2009-December/000479.html I don't mind that your vote is lost; but I hope that others will look into the law and the references cited, rather than taking either yours, or my, interpretations on trust. Apologies for the cross-post, but you have raised this same point on all three lists. For anyone good enough to read and reply, please do trim the follow-ups. Richard _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list Talk-au@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au