[Osmf-talk] OSM fair use examples

[Oliver Kühn]

On 28.06.2010 14:55, Gert Gremmen wrote:
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> >I did not get an
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> >answer on my question
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> >of how are we going to enforce the license.
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> >Anyone thought of that ?
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You should keep in mind that any contributor can take legal actions in
regards to copyright infringement. I would assume that the first who are
taking actions would be data donation companies like AND.
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> My last word on this:
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> This license stuff is keeping
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> a whole lot of people
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> from mapping, therefore my
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> opinion on growing faster…
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I believe that not many mappers have ever thought of the license at all.
It might increase the usage of OpenStreetMap data by companies who fear
loosing proprietary data. This might have an indirect effect of the
number of mappers. However, in general I think the effect will be marginal.

Regards,
Oliver
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