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

[Liz]

On Fri, 23 Jul 2010, Richard Weait wrote:
> If you find planet on a bus you are not finding just a pile of ordered
> ones and zeros.  It's on media of some type.  You might sell the disk
> as is, but copying the data and selling it would be legally risky.  A
> Reasonable Person[2] would understand that there could be copyright
> works included in the data on the disk.

We've already discussed that this would have copyright on it, but any licence 
imposed under contract provisions is lost, because the finder did not agree to 
the licence.