[OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Matt Amos wrote:
> ODbL does exactly this: it is a copyright and database rights license,

Can you explain this some more. I thought the copyright aspect was 
explicitly not covering the content (a fact that was actually critisised 
by a legal reviewer who found it too clumsy to have an extra license for 
the content).

>> Thanks.  Those are indeed problems with the licence.  But only the first
>> one is a reason to *drop* CC-BY-SA; the remaining ones are just as easily
>> addressed by dual-licensing under both Creative Commons and some other,
>> more permissive (and acceptable-to-some-lawyers) licence.  I would happily
>> support such a move.
> 
> you'd happily support distributing the data under a license which is
> not likely to protect it?

I think he's asking for evidence of "not likely".

Bye
Frederik