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

[John Smith]

On 19 August 2010 18:13, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:
> 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.

+1 on both points, same thing in Australia a lot of older small towns
haven't changed much in 100 years and out of copyright parish maps
(where we could get them) have been used in a similar way.