<div dir="ltr"><div>Nuno, this isn't about what the license allows, it's about the law. You can't re-write the law. What the law allows it would allow even if there was no license at all.</div><div>And I would also note that, frankly, the EU is the outlier in this respect in having database protections at all (and I would not say that even EU database protections would prohibit as small an excerpt as a screenshot, though "substantial" is undefined in the Directive). The majority of the world does not have database protections, so if any analogy is fair, it's a bit of the reverse, with the EU being a "database haven".<br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:37 AM Nuno Caldeira <<a href="mailto:nunocapelocaldeira@gmail.com">nunocapelocaldeira@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 17:29 Kathleen Lu, <<a href="mailto:kathleen.lu@mapbox.com" target="_blank">kathleen.lu@mapbox.com</a>> wrote:</div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>I'm curious as to the reason for your doubts, Nuno. Are you aware of case law to the contrary?</div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">I'm just surprised we adopted a license that seems to be useless in USA, according to corporate interpretation of the license even if it's for commercial purposes. Seems like we have a public domain license after all.</div><div dir="auto">Thank god these companies are not Corporate members of OSMF, don't need to give a good example and neither provide worldwide services. </div><div dir="auto">Reminds me of cruise ship registrations or tax heavens. Seem we also have license heavens. </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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