[OSM-legal-talk] Database and its contents

[Rob Myers]

On 11/25/2010 07:50 AM, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:
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> 3) I don’t care if anybody copies our data for any reason,

Do you care if they prevent other people from doing the same?

> because any other company will do the same,

Well, yes, that's what the licences allow them to do. They just ensure 
that they cannot prevent anyone else from doing so.

> and possibly we will ourselves.

Not under the current CTs. ;-)

> 4) I am a pragmatist (and to some extend anarchist ;<)) in that we are
> not able and not willing to challenge any data theft in court.

That isn't pragmatism, that's capitulation.

And I'm not sure OSM(F) is either unwilling or unable to challenge 
licence breaches in court.

> 5) Any license choosen conflicts with the OPEN & FREE concept, the basis
> of OSM , and the most important reason why it became successful.

A licence that protects the reality of that freedom supports it rather 
than conflicting with it, and is the reason why OSM became successful 
(or at the absolute least has not prevented it from succeeding).

- Rob.