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

[Simon Ward]

On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:58:34PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote:
> My point was to mention that the licence is using contract law as one of the
> mechanism when no other are present, not to use other map providers as a
> reference or an example to follow.

Why do we need contract law at all?

I know some reason why people think we need it:  Because database
rights are drastically different to non‐existent across different
jurisdictions, so we feel the need to “balance” it out by enforcing the
same for everyone using contract law.

I don’t agree with it.

Simon
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simple system that works.—John Gall
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