[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL: incompatibility issues

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/3/2 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> 80n wrote:
>> I can imagine a scenario where, for example, Google uses Amazon's Mechanical
>> Turk to pay lots of people to use Map Maker to trace from OSM's rendered
>> tiles.
>
> Is this a scenario we could try to fight when it happens, instead of
> complicating things upfront, or would it be too late then?
>
> My opinion is that if OSM were non-changing, one could say we need to be
> cautions because once the data is leaked beyond our control then that's
> it. But since OSM is changing, and (IMHO) our database is worth little
> without the steady stream of changes, we can risk such a "leak" because
> we always have the power to cut off the updates and thus render the
> leaked data next to worthless after a short time.

this is valid for some portions of our data, while a lot of it will
most likely not change but still is quite precious, e.g. housenumbers.

Martin