On Mar 5, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Also, the cost of staying with buggy old CC-BY-SA for a few months longer is rather negligible,
The barn down the road from me was standing on just four 9" beams. We kept saying "Boy, that barn has some structural problems. It could fall down at any time." It didn't fall, and it didn't fall. One might be tempted to think that one could go into the barn and pull one valuable things of one sort or another. The barn finally fell down this winter.
If it's a bad idea to use the CC-BY-SA, it's a bad idea to use it for a few months longer. Just because its barn hasn't fallen doesn't mean that the risk is not increasing. Everybody knew that the Johnstown dam was going to go ... when it finally did, nobody paid attention because they didn't believe it actually HAD gone out.
But all this discussion is kinda pointless. There are two things going on here: the ODbL is being drafted, and we're deciding whether the ODbL meets our needs (I say "our" because I joined the Foundation a few days ago.) Until the ODbL is finished, we kinda have nothing to talk about. Yes, the ODbL is being drafted with our specific needs in mind, so if the first published version doesn't meet our needs, we can go back to the well and ask for a revision. But until the ODbL is finished, we're spinning our wheels. Can we assume that the lawyers understand the problem and are working on a solution?
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