[OSM-legal-talk] [talk-au] Statement from nearmap.com regarding submission of derived works from PhotoMaps to OpenStreetMap

Mike Dupont jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
Wed Jun 22 05:03:52 BST 2011


On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 4:57 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:

> > Person A also should do as much as they can to make sure any potential
> > Person C is aware of the intention.  In the case of OSM, it helps that
> it's
> > the largest open map data project - it's likely anyone thinking of
> creating
> > a map data from tiles they somehow got hold of from Person B would
> > investigate and discover OSM exists.
>
> I don't think intent alone is enough, if the intent is to limit
> derivative copies you need to stipulate that in your license to B,
> otherwise you know that C is able to do what ever he likes based on
> the license between B and C.
>
>

I wanted to stay out of this endless discussion, but let me point out the
simple fact that "copyleft" is designed to solve this problem. When you get
a copy of the data, you get the intended license and done need a contract.
It is pretty simple and it has been tested in court via the gpl.

mike
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