[OSM-legal-talk] transitive contracts

[A Morris]

Geographical features simply don't change very often. I don't think the fact
that the data is one year old would discourage someone from copying stuff
into their own proprietary dataset.

Aled.

On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> >> No comments on that by anyone? Rob, Gervase - you're the ones who are
> >> most outspoken about copyleft, would such a solution seem acceptable
> >> to you, or do you need copyleft to the bitter end?
> >
> > It's a creative solution for those who want access to PD data, but not
> > for us annoying people who want to protect the freedom of users
> > wherever they may be, so I wouldn't personally support it.
>
> Well it would have been a compromise for those wo want access to PD
> data because they'd only get stuff that is a year old, and it would
> have been a compromise for you because you would "protect the
> freedom" only for the most recent data, which (I believe) is the most
> valuable and thus needs your protection most.
>
> What would we lose if the February 2007 planet file became public
> domain now? Could any realistic threat to our project or the freedom
> of our current data be constructed from that?
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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