[OSM-legal-talk] INANAL - But these guys are

[Lars Aronsson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

> "Apparently getting away with something" is exactly the kind of legal  
> limbo that frightens off those potential users who have something to  
> lose by getting sued. It may be ok for you. Don't assume it is ok for  
> everybody.

In my opinion, we can find our way only by walking it.  In a court 
of law, lawyers make reference both to written law, previous court 
cases, and to existing, established practices in society and 
business.  Since there is no written law specifically regulating 
how community mapping projects' data can be reused under Creative 
Commons licenses, and very few court cases with regards to CC at 
all, the existing practice would seem all the more important.

The fact that I could get away with this is one important 
observation.  Another important observation is that Multimap could 
get away with using OSM's map of Isle of Wight.  To assist future 
interpretation (by lawyers or others), we could make a list of 
actual uses that have passed without any known protests.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se