[Aust-NZ] Anyone able to get/offer proper legal advice over ODBL? [SEC=PERSONAL]

[Roppola, Antti - BRS]

I am not a lawyer either, but I attended some really good presentations
some years back on the whys and wherefores of the Queensland Creative
Commons licensing. One reason was the grief that license mashups were
causing. Even if licenses allow mashups, clauses accrete rapidly and are
often contradictory. What do you do if license A says "colour must equal
black" and license B says "colour must equal white"?

I do think Creative Commons is more a case of the glass being half full
than half empty. It's good to see all this discussion about what makes a
good license, I don't think it would have happened with adoption of CC.

Cheers,

Antti

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Sent: Tuesday, 8 December 2009 5:20 AM
To: aust-nz at lists.osgeo.org; John Smith
Subject: Re: [Aust-NZ] Anyone able to get/offer proper legal advice over
ODBL?

Hi John,

Not legal advice, but some comments/concerns based on what I know of it
that might help. I'm pretty sure my comments are correct :-) but check
with your lawyer, & you might still create your own licence & get it
certified as compatible with ODBL.
...

The ODBL licence expressly forbids mashups with data from incompatible
licences. I can see this being restrictive, and perhaps akin to the
"viral" nature of GPL instead of MIT or BSD. (clause 4.4d - share alike)
 


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