[OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

[SteveC]

On 4 Feb 2008, at 16:30, rob at robmyers.org wrote:

> Quoting Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemeD.net>:
>
>> OSMF disagrees significantly with this assessment of a contractual
>> approach. Commercial geodata (TeleAtlas, Navteq etc.) is protected
>> this way.
>
> Has this been tested in court though? Or has anything equivalent to
> this been tested in court?

So it's important to test in court....

>> We also believe that the experience of free software/open
>> source licences is that enforcement is largely achieved by public
>> pressure: the GPL is enforced more through bad publicity for alleged
>> violators (or "bad guys") than by actual legal action.
>
> Yes, but the GPL works because lawyers read it and having seen that
> it's at least coherent enough to lead to a lawsuit tell their clients
> to settle.

Now it isn't important... ?

have fun,

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