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

[Simon Ward]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 12:04:55PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> This is the same about anything using contract law. Someone breaking the
> contract and redistributing it doesn't remove the contract that is given
> with the data. They are still obliged to follow the contract even if they
> "didn't sign for it". I would be amazed that such a loophole exists in the
> first place.

To my knowledge the contract isn’t automatically transferred, although
it occurs to me that it could be a condition of the licence that the
contract is also adhered to. I’m not sure this is the case.

Simon
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