[OSM-legal-talk] ODbL and duration of IP protection

[Simon Ward]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 12:17:15AM +0200, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Yup. But then again, by the time data has lapsed it is very likely
> to be utterly useless. I am 99% certain that in 10 years time you
> *will*, for most use cases, be able to get data that is more current
> than OSM and has less restrictions. Nobody will be interested in
> x-year-old lapsed OSM data then. So I think this problem is of
> theoretical nature.

I’m glad you say “most”, because we do (or did, at least before OS
OpenData sources became available) have a habit of jumping on old
Ordnance Survey maps in the UK because the data they represent is still
useful.

There are also a number of people in the community interested in
historical mapping, so who is to say someone will not find x-year-old
OSM data useful?

Simon
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A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
simple system that works.—John Gall
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