[OSM-legal-talk] New license status

[Gustav Foseid]

2009/9/28 Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

> > The database directive gives 15 years of protection for a dump of a
> > database. As long as the database is updated, the protection period will
> be
> > continously renewed.
>
> Planet dumps which are 15 years old will be considered out-of-copyright,
> though.
>

Well... There is no copyright that expires after 15 years. Sui generis
database rights expire after 15 years, but copyright is hardly very relevant
for an OpenStreetMap database dump.

 - Gustav
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