[OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards

[A Morris]

I was merely making the point that OSM's new license can rely on the same
legal foundation that TeleAtlas uses. I'm reasonably sure they don't rely on
trade secrets, since thousands of people have access to their data.




On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:25 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >        Isn't the point that in some (fairly major) jurisdictions it is
> >       likely all three will fail?
> >
> >       s (genuinely trying to understand)
> >
> >    Maybe TeleAtlas would contribute to the legal defence :-)
>
> Why would they if they have trade secret on their side. Their
> situation is entirely different from ours. They're not building a free
> world map. We do. They're not fighting our battle in court. And if
> they were, then I am sure I wouldn't be the only one to feel that
> they've landed on the wrong side somehow.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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