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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Jul 23 23:59:37 BST 2010


On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:33 PM, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 23 July 2010 22:14, Liz <edodd at billiau.net> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> However, the end result is effectively the same: with no copyright
> statement, the default is "All rights reserved", so the only way the
> finder can do anything whatsoever with the work is go to www.osm.org
> and establish a contract.


And what is it that's wrong with CC-BY-SA again?
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