[OSM-legal-talk] Reverse-Engineering Maps and Share-Alike Licences

[80n]

On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:

> a) GPL and CC-BY-SA compatibility of produced works is more important.
>

Agreed, but...


>
> b) If people are reverse-engineering our stuff, either they need a
> massive, sustained, continuous Mechanical Turk effort, or their map will
> be out of date anyway.
>

... an effort like OSM for example, or Google's Map Maker.  And they can
always get the latest OSM data just by creating a new Produced Work any time
they want.  It's not much of an obstacle.

IMHO the whole Produced Work thing, as currently drafted, is fatally
flawed.  It fails to achieve what it is trying to do.  A rethink is
required.

80n
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