[OSM-legal-talk] Monopoly City Streets

[Stefan Baebler]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu> wrote:
> On 09/09/09 12:40, Iván Sánchez Ortega wrote:
>> El Miércoles, 9 de Septiembre de 2009, Jukka Rahkonen escribió:
>>>> By the sound of that, it seems that they're joining up the GMaps data and
>>>> the OSM data, and filtering out the street names in common.
>>>
>>> Do you think there might be something wrong in doing so?
>>
>> I do. I think that their DB is a derivative work of the OSM data and that
>> share-alike should apply.
>
> How on earth can you know that - we have no idea what they have actually
> done yet. You are all just guessing based on a few things in the blog.
Will you know later with more confidence than now?
>From the final data you can only be sure it _isn't_ _only_ from Navteq
or _only_ from OSM or any other data provider, as all their easter
eggs will be missing (as if OSM had any).
We could catch them only in coordinated setup, where equal (or similar
enough) trap streets are planted into several sources. Unfortunately
other data providers probably wouldn't be very cooperative.

> How about we calm down, wait until the game is live this evening and we
> might be able to see what they've done and if it is a problem...
Yes, and then we will unleash our team of high profile lawyers to make
Google release the raw data that they haven't got the permission (from
data providers) to release. This should be interesting.

Stefan