[OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the "loss of data" claim

[SteveC]

On 19 Feb 2008, at 22:48, bvh wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 11:01:16PM +0000, Andy Robinson wrote:
>> The issue was quite simple. We need to have a license that better
>> protects the OSM data and clarifies how the data can be used so that
>
> In what way do we need to better protect the rights to the work of the
> OSM contributors? I am not aware of anyone really infringing our work?
>
> AFAIK this whole 'lets get another license' is motived by a desire
> of some to make it easier for 3th parties to use our work, not for
> a desire to better protect the contributors.

No, the total opposite.

We only found out about some of the implications of certain use cases,  
and how it makes some use a bit easier, when we sat down with Jordan  
in a cafe and threw around ideas and scenarios.

Please don't try to question OSMF board members motivations, it's a  
bit cheap and they're spending their free time trying to help.

have fun,

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