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<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>Francis wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>I certainly agree that taking legal action should be
low on any list.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>It can be expensive, risky and time consuming.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><b><span style='color:#943634'>+1 <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>If you want to prevent unattributed uses and so on,
having a dedicated<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>team of volunteers to work out the best approaches
(and different<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>approaches will work in different ways in different
circumstances) is<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText>>probably best. Whether you want to do that is another
matter.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>Should we want to be
attributed ? To satisfy pedantic ego inside us ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>Can we never give something to
the world without asking back ???<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>Do we need to be cited ? Does
anyone read attributions ?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>None of us can enforce any
license to any serious player on the market<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>trying to steal “our”
data. Commercial maps are a business of millions<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>of dollars. Any legal action
is wasting (our) lots money, and even worse,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>will not lead to any
compensations, as we don't make money with our data (so<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>we can’t lose any either
–but for the enforcement-)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>I mean, what will be the net
result of such an enforcement, as we do<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>not benefit nor loose from
the mere fact that our license/attribution<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>is being respected or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>Enforcing licenses/attributions
is a sure way to lose what we do have in plenty:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#943634'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#943634'>the open and
free image<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#943634'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#943634'>sympathy among literally
hundreds of thousands<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt;text-indent:-18.0pt;mso-list:
l0 level1 lfo1'><![if !supportLists]><span style='color:#943634'><span
style='mso-list:Ignore'>-<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>
</span></span></span><![endif]><span style='color:#943634'>information about our
world to give to its citizen in wealth and in disaster<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>The only way to go is making OSM
free as in free ! <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>Free OSM effectively stops
the big players of making money with geodata <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'>and that is the only way we
can actually “enforce” that what we actually promise on our (wiki)home
page:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:#943634'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>"OpenStreetMap creates and
provides free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The
project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal
or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in
creative, productive, or unexpected ways"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'>Gert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoPlainText><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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