[OSM-legal-talk] Would The ODbL and BY-SA Clash In A Database Extracted From a BY-SA Produced Work?

[edodd at billiau.net]

> 2) The "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual, irrevocable
> license to do any act that is restricted by copyright over anything
> within the Contents, whether in the original medium or any other"
> gives them that.
>

I got far enough through the Australian Copyright Act at the weekend to
discover that this won't extend to Australia.
Assignment of Australian copyright cannot be done over the internet.
There are new High Court rulings regarding digital signatures which will
have to be read to confirm this, but click-through is unlikely to meet the
standard required.