[OSM-legal-talk] New license status

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Lunes, 28 de Septiembre de 2009, Gustav Foseid escribió:
> 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.

OK,let me rephrase that:

"Planet dumps which are 15 years old will be considered 
out-of-sui-generis-database-rights, though."

Better? :-)

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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivan at sanchezortega.es>

"Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other 
alternatives."
 - Abba Eban (1915-2002)
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