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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 02.03.2019 um 16:13 schrieb Florian
Lohoff:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">In most jurisdications licensing and trade marks will only hold up
when defended or enforced in court. Once you stop doing so you
might loose your protection.</pre>
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<p>This is nonsense as Mateusz has already pointed out and is not
even true for trademarks in that form.</p>
<p>Those that have been around a bit longer know that you jump at
every chance to re-fight a battle that you long lost (with claims
that were not true 7 years ago and are not less wrong now), and
really this is a discussion about what the community wants to do
going forward about attribution, not about your old grievances. <br>
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<p>Simon</p>
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So when relicensing the ultimate consequence is that you need to defend
your license - and thats was my first question. Is the OSMF willing
to enforce the license?
I had my doubts that the ODbL will be enforced against companys who
are not only data consumers but also contributers and sponsors.
In the end the fear of displease our big sponsors by dragging them
to court is bigger than the annoyance of those consumers not
attributing to us in a form acceptable.
In the end i see exactly that happing right now.
And we as mappers, contributers have lost a lot of freedom with the
relicensing - and the gain was marginal. Now we are in the situation
that the big consumers may push us around as they like as the OSMF
is not willing to defend our rights which we passed on to them
with the CT. Just pay some bills of the OSMF, SoTM, OSM Operations
and suddenly you'll be pretty safe against ODbL violations.
I was disappointed with the relicensing as i didnt see any reason to
do so. And i am disappointed by the paper tiger the OSMF is.
I am still a big fan of PD/CC0 but taken all the side effects of the
ODbL the least thing i want is that the marginal gains we might have
with this license will be taken serious and be enforced by the OSMF.
Violations are going on for years now and every couple months somebody
asks for clarification and the outcome is always nil.
So i fail to see anyone to enforcing the ODbL. So why did we do the
relicensing in the first place?
Flo
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