Hello, I found out recently about the license change issue, and I discover with fear that everything looks decided. I feel I'm being rushed.
I don't understand why an adoption plan has been put up while the very terms of the license are yet unsettled. How can the authors be so certain that no significant changes will need to be made after the comment phase? Changes would imply another comment phase on the new version. The time granted to read all the discussions, documents, wiki pages *and* understand them correctly is way too short. OSM is not a full-time occupation for many people. Moreover, after having read the proposed license text and some comments on wiki pages, I am under the impression that most of the participants in the discussion are public domain advocates and that they may use this license change to promote their views. While i respect these people, I do not share their opinions and I will not let OSM go PD. Granted, some texts claim it will not be the case (report from SOTM), but the current text of the ODbL raised my suspicion. Please correct if I misunderstood. * Waivers : thankfully I cannot legally waive my moral rights in my country, but I think it is unfair to require this form any person in the world. Of course I do not require that my name is printed on all OSM-generated maps, should they effectively contain data that I inserted in the DB. Being collectively acknowledged as "OSM contributor" is sufficient for me. But, I require that if someone wants to find out who are the precise people behind the data, this should be possible. To me, the current license text simply states that any person contributing data from a country where moral rights waivers are possible, may have their name completely deleted from the DB. * Produced Works : as I understand, it will be possible to distribute a produced image map under any license, including all rights reserved. Therefore, if an editor produces good-looking maps with an unpublished process, the published maps will not even be usable in a SA manner, even if the editor used community resources at the root of its process. This sounds unacceptable to me. That's all for now, but I might raise other concerns as I discover them. JC _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
