[OSM-legal-talk] Request for clarification (for German translation) of CTs 1.2.4

Simon Poole simon at poole.ch
Thu Mar 24 09:17:02 GMT 2011


Thomas Ineichen has been so nice to update the (unofficial) German 
translation to 1.2.4 
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/DE:Open_Database_License/Contributor_Terms). 
There is a small mater of dispute wrt to the intent of the English 
original in 1 (a):

"your contribution of data should not infringe .."

Is the intent that the "should" is a legal mandatory "shall" or is it a 
legal non-mandatory "should"? It seems that the French translation 
(based on my awful French skills) would support the former.

Simon





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