[OSM-legal-talk] Houses of cards

[SteveC]

On 21 Feb 2008, at 12:13, Frederik Ramm wrote:

> Hi,
>
>> Sorry can you point to a lawyer who says that?
>
> Is this now a mailing list on which stuff only counts if said by a
> lawyer?

Legal arguments, generally, are only worth anything if said by a  
lawyer right? Anything else is guesswork.

> To me at least, it seems obvious what Rob says. If you have something
> that is not copyrighted, and you give it someone under a contract,
> and that person breaches te contract and publishes the data, then
> whatever you gave him is up for grabs by anyone as they're not party
> to the contract.
>
> This is not something I need a lawyer to say for me, or am I
> overlooking some complexity here?

Yes, that you can ignore the contract.

have fun,

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