[OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT

[David Groom]

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From: "Frederik Ramm" <frederik at remote.org>
To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
Sent: Monday, August 16, 2010 11:40 AM
Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Simple question about CT


>
> Hi,
>
> David Groom wrote:
>> However from a legal point of view the CT terms say is is an agreement 
>> between "you" and OSMF.
>
> Interesting, and probably true. But since making the second account forces 
> you to use a different email address, how will we ever know with certainty 
> that "you" and "you" are the same person?
>
We won't..

But just because we cant catch someone breaking the CT terms, doesn't  mean 
they aren't still breaking them :)

David

> - Sometimes I wonder. We're joyfully ignoring the world before us in the 
> area of cartography, confessing to utter cluelessness in GIS affairs and 
> still doing great. Nobody has ever recommended employing professional GIS 
> consultants because, hey, "we're just geeks an programmers and they are 
> GIS experts". We're also self-taught in most other aspects of running OSM, 
> blissfully ignoring the professional world. Isn't it sad that when it 
> comes to "legal", we've meanwhile almost reached the point where we send 
> away 12-year-old mappers because they are not old enough to legally agree 
> to the CT? (Why don't we, by the way?) (Oh no, sorry, delete that last 
> question.)
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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