[OSM-legal-talk] Ordnance data

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008, SteveC escribió:
> >> And you believe NavTeq and TeleAtlas are also built on a house of
> >> cards?
[...]
> Well I can tell you exactly what they do, their licenses are based on
> the same three things that the ODL is. The Database Directive,
> copyright and contract.


Funny thing here is, if BadCompany™ finds a loophole to relicense OSM data by 
rendering the ODL invalid (or otherwise), then OSM would have a *huge* change 
of using the same loophole to relicense the NavTeq/TeleAtlas stuff.

Maybe I just oversimplified, but it looks like a win-win scenario to me...

In other words, it is not in the best interest of BadCompany™ to prove that 
the OSM data is void of any kind of copyright/DB protection.


Cheers,
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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>

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