[OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

[SteveC]

On 3 Oct 2008, at 14:39, Adrian wrote:

>> I could tell you about our plans for ice cream gloves but I think  
>> this
>> does it better:
>
> The difference being that you are planning on trading off of the  
> back of
>  the goodwill of many other people. I don't think it is unreasonable
> for those people to ask for reassurance that you are planning to  
> respect
> their rights.

The use of that phrase 'trading off of the back of the goodwill of  
many people' feels a little pejorative to me. We're not doing anything  
anyone else could not do. We're not attempting a CDDB. In fact we're  
doing much the same as many, many other firms such as Canonical or  
RedHat.

It would be totally ridiculous, wrong, bone-heading and suicidal for  
us not to respect the rights in OSM. Of course we do and will.

And of course we want to help OSM as much as possible, which is why we  
do things like sponsor the conference.

> Cloudmade could have responded when I asked directly rather than  
> ignore
> me and this thread would have been unnecessary.

You've jumped to the conclusion that we've ignored you. I'm sure if  
you took a step back and realised that we're a busy and growing  
company that we have many demands on our time, and this was simply  
overlooked.

Best

Steve