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At 03:53 AM 9/12/2009, Mike Collinson wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">At 10:50 PM 8/12/2009, 80n
wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:38 PM,
SteveC <<a href="mailto:steve@asklater.com">steve@asklater.com</a>>
wrote:
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<dd>Taking a few points:<br>
<dd>On Dec 8, 2009, at 2:33 PM, 80n wrote:
<dd>> Not one single case has been presented where the intent of the
CC BY-SA license has been abused.<br>
<dd>It took what, 3 decades or something for the GPL to be tested in
court. You want to wait for that, or be proactive?<br>
<dd>In the meantime we have plenty of people avoiding OSM because of all
the ambiguities, stretching back to ITN and before.<br><br>
</dl>ITN is an example of CC BY-SA being effective. ITN chose not
to abuse the license and did not use our data.</blockquote><br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/" eudora="autourl">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org</a>:<br><br>
"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."<br><br>
A legal text should never lose site of the principle
aims.</blockquote><br>
Or indeed ... A legal text should never lose sight of the principal
aims. Beware late night typing. :-}<br><br>
Again, on a personal note. If we have come up with something that
just prevents this incident happening again, then the whole effort will
have been worth it for me.<br><br>
ITN is a major British national News station. OpenStreetMap had simply
the best map of Baghdad. But they never got seen by the British public on
legal advice. Our license is ambiguous on whether we want all OSM
contributors to be listed on every map. It is also unclear as to whether
Share-Alike would extend to other graphical elements used on their set or
indeed to the whole news segment ... all creative works.<br><br>
Mike<br><br>
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