[OSM-legal-talk] Clarifying Geocoding and ODbL

Martin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Fri Jun 14 10:44:58 UTC 2013


2013/6/14 Olov McKie <olov at mckie.se>

> I would suspect that if a license dispute about OSM ever end up in court,
> we will not be able to argue for more copyright protection than what we
> gave to those contributors who did not want the license to change. I would
> also like to argue that, when a question comes in if a user can or can not
> do something without breaching our copyright, we should always start the
> discussion by looking for similar examples in our own change to the ODbL.



-1
You are comparing apples to pears, as the mappers in the license change had
their contributions licensed cc-by-sa, while now we are in ODbL with
different terms and obligations, so you can't really deduct anything from
the former situation to where we are now in terms of licensing or rights
affected.

cheers,
Martin
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