On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 7:34 PM, Russ Nelson <r...@cloudmade.com> wrote: > 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.
Given that maps need to be regularly updated to stay useful, anyone relying on a CC-BY-SA loophole will be just as SOL if we change the license in a year as if we changed it in time for april fools, as their update stream stops when the license changes. However, changing to a license before finding out exactly how that license works is like taking out Russ's barn beams and letting the structure fall onto untested supports. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
