[OSM-legal-talk] Why is the data protected?

[Andreas Perstinger]

On 2010-11-28 21:39, Mike Dupont wrote:
> I have also asked this question. If the old license is not any good,
> then they should not need our permission to just take the data.

After some more reading and thinking I am of the opinion that there are 
two parts of the problem: the license and the permission/CT. The license 
is for the database as a whole and important for a user who want to take 
parts out of it. The CT is the contract between the data deliverer and 
the OSMF as the manager of the database.
I would argue now that before the new CT (since March 2010 if I'm right) 
there wasn't a real CT at all (for me the simple sentence used is just 
too vague and let many questions unanswered). Therefore I think even if 
you have any problems with the new license, as a mapper, you should 
welcome the new CT if you want that OSM in future is build upon a stable 
fundament.

This still doesn't answer the questions about the old data and I'm 
afraid there won't be any answer at all except everybody accepts the new 
license which is rather unlikely regarding what I've read in all the 
discussions :-(.

Bye, Andreas