[OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

[Gervase Markham]

On 12/05/09 09:37, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Claiming copyright on something where you are not reasonably sure of
> actually having it is, in my eyes, a FUD maneouvre worthy of players
> like the OS, but something that we should make an attempt to steer clear of.

The way of avoiding it seeming to be FUD is to have a clause like:

"Nothing in this licence attempts to restrict your rights under fair use 
or a similar doctrine".

The GPL v3 has one:

"This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, 
as provided by copyright law."

Gerv