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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Andy Allan wrote:
> I think without the reverse engineering clause, you may as well make  
> it PD in the first place..

As I said: You could drop the reverse engineering clause for certain 
share-alike licenses only, thus making reverse-engineering into a 
share-alike form possible but that would mean that the best you get with 
your OMR is a CC-BY-SA or GFDL licensed database. You could then take 
that to a country where the data itself is not protected and because 
CC-BY-SA has no database component, use it without restriction. - But 
then you can *always* take our database to a WIPO unfriendly country and 
do WTFYW if you're the kind of person so inclined.

Bye
Frederik

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