[OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

[Rob Myers]

Sebastian Spaeth wrote:

> In Linux that problem is solved by companies bying their product from 
> Redhat, including some kind of insurance that RedHat provides. If there 
> are legal hassles, then Redhat would be sued and RedHat would have to 
> deal with the 20000 copyright holders and not the end-user (if you are 
> not SCO and live in a parallel universe).

Autozone still had to pay to defend against SCO accusing them as a Linux 
user of infringing SCO's copyrights.

But if people want to pay a company that sells OSM data to tell them 
that they are indemnified against copyright trolling then it sounds like 
a good business opportunity. :-)

- Rob.