On 05/03/09 10:56, Dair Grant wrote: > People have been talking about the licence issue for years (literally; there > was an hour-long panel about it at SOTM 2007), and we have nothing to show > for it other than a large number of "I'm not a lawyer, but..." threads. > > We know there are issues with the current licence, and there will be issues > with ODbL 1.0 as well.
But, hopefully, not issues of the same magnitude. > But having that in front of us, in a final form, gives us a choice: is this > suitable for what we want, or not? Say we declared it 1.0 today. At the moment, IMO it's not suitable. So we'd carry on the discussion and eventually have a 1.1. How is this any better than waiting to get 1.0 more right? > I would be happy to have a bad 1.0 out sooner which was rejected by OSM > (perhaps accepted by some other community, who knows), than a perfect 1.0 > which never arrived. That's a false dichotomy - those aren't the choices. Gerv _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
