[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:

> On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 21:30:22 +1000, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > The difference here is companies like Teleatlas would sue someone for
> > massive damages if the contract was breached in the first place, which
> > would be OSM-F's only relief, OSM-F won't have a contract with any 3rd
> > party that may download data from (I like Rob's example better)
> > picking up a copy left on a bus.
>
> The FSF have found that people almost always prefer complying with
> licences to being sued for damages and compliance.
>
> I don't see why it would be different for OSM(F).
>

Then I don't see what's wrong with CC-BY-SA.
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