[OSM-legal-talk] Ordnance data

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008, John Wilbanks escribió:
> OK, now we are at the heart of it.

It seems I'll have to fetch my flamethrower ;-)

> If the database law attaches, you're using a bad law - one that may well
> be repealed, and has been rebuked even by the EC itself.

Pardon me? When has such a thing taken place?

> And it's uncompiled code - we don't know what "substantial" extraction 
> means,

The ODL makes a statement here by using the word "systematic". So, if you had 
to build a small program to extract the data given a polygon, bounding box, 
or a certain tag, it's substantial at the eyes of OSM.

> If the copyright law attaches and the data is PD, I can extract it and
> your contract doesn't matter.

How could you extract it, if there is a contract in your way?

(I mean, extract without breaking the contract)

(Disclaimer: IANAL, this e-mail is biased)
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