On 4 Mar 2009, at 04:01, Peter Miller wrote: > My main criticism in relation to license Steve is not that you are > 'evil' but that you have been absent. Your last post in relation to > the license on legal-talk was over three months go (25th Nov). > > Given that you are the only person who has attended meetings with > 'our' lawyer and that until recently even the other directors of the > foundation were in the dark we need your input urgently. Even now, > we have other foundation directors asking questions about the > license on legal-talk - very strange.
I think it's a mischaracterisation so say they were or are in the dark. We have for example a working group putting together the SOTM. I don't know every detail but when I ask there are answers... I certainly don't say I'm 'in the dark'. > To help you we (ie the wider OSM community) have been maintaining > and developing the legal side of the wiki over the past 6 months. > Few of us have been in on the process so it would be handy if you > were able to cast your eye over all the pages that relate to the > ODbL and make any corrections that are necessary. They are all in > the Open Data Licence Category:- > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Category:Open_Data_Licence > > We have also collected the key questions and requirements onto two > wiki pages. > > The Use Cases page has lists in plain english some of the things we > want to do with the data and we have had a legal response to some. > It would be helpful if you could explain the Use Cases to our lawyer > so he can give answers to the ones where he has said 'I need someone > to walk me through this one':- > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_Licence/Use_Cases > > The Open Issues page lists the key questions to which we don't have > answers. There is a space below each one where you can provide > details from your discussions with 'our' lawyer as to how he sees > these questions being addressed:- > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Open_Issues Yes absolutely. Grant can you put this on the agenda for the license call please? > For your interest my company's lawyer (acting for ITO World Ltd) is > hoping to have her response together in relation to the license by > the end of tomorrow. My company will review her comments and hope to > be able to make that document publicly available to the community by > the end of this week. She may also give opinion on some Use Cases > and Open Issues which could be useful. Great. Are those opinions in relation to ITO!s business or from the point of view purely of the use cases? Best Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
