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

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Wed Oct 28 15:16:59 GMT 2009


Frederik Ramm <frederik at ...> writes:

>>In general, the ideal licence would not need to be fully watertight in
>>all jurisdictions, but only strong enough to provide a good deterrent
>>in practice for most individuals and companies.
>
>What would you want to deter them from?

I meant to say 'deterrent against redistributing the data under non-free,
non-share-alike terms'.

That is not the goal in itself, of course, but only a way to increase the
general availability of free map data.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>





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