[OSM-legal-talk] A simplification of the agreement on the signup page.
Russ Nelson
russ at cloudmade.com
Mon Mar 2 00:50:44 GMT 2009
I see your point. Data potentially infringing if removed now could be
recreated now, making later bookkeeping easier.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Russ Nelson wrote:
>> I don't see much value in removing the data now on the chance that
>> we might have
>> to remove it later.
>
> Viral licenses are called viral for a reason. If you have to remove
> something it is always good to do so before it has infected a lot of
> other things.
>
> Or more practical, if someone draws the basic road grid for a city
> in a
> day and you remove it BEFORE everyone else has built on top of that,
> you
> lose only a day's work; if you remove it half a year later (and remove
> everything that can be said to be derived from it), then you might
> lose
> a lot more.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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