OpenStreetMap bot removes waypoints after licensing change (The H)

Posted Jul 30, 2012 13:36 UTC (Mon) by gioele (subscriber, #61675)
In reply to: OpenStreetMap bot removes waypoints after licensing change (The H) by hummassa
Parent article: OpenStreetMap bot removes waypoints after licensing change (The H)

> For starters, because the ODbL 1.0 does not pass the DFSG?

I could not find a detailed analysis of the problems of DFSG with ODBL. Pointers?

The only thing I have seen is <http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2010/08/msg00006.html> there the author says he finds a problem with licence and he does not want it accepted as DFSG-compliant, for the same reasons he do not think that AGPLv3 should be treated as DFSG-complieant. Anyhow, he later admits that AGPLv3 has been accepted as DFSG-compliant by the FTP masters and that ODBL is probably as much compliant as AGPLv3.

OpenStreetMap bot removes waypoints after licensing change (The H)

Posted Jul 30, 2012 17:27 UTC (Mon) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]

ballombe's answer, copied again below, is clearer than mine, and I don't really have pointers right now.

> The ODbL try to enforce EU-style sui-generis database right in jurisdiction where they do not exist in law.
> Any "license" that restrict rights you would have in the absence of a license is non-free (and is actually a contract).