[Osmf-talk] [OSM-talk] Attribution guideline status update

[Kathleen Lu]

Nuno, this isn't about what the license allows, it's about the law. You
can't re-write the law. What the law allows it would allow even if there
was no license at all.
And I would also note that, frankly, the EU is the outlier in this respect
in having database protections at all (and I would not say that even EU
database protections would prohibit as small an excerpt as a screenshot,
though "substantial" is undefined in the Directive). The majority of the
world does not have database protections, so if any analogy is fair, it's a
bit of the reverse, with the EU being a "database haven".

On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:37 AM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocaldeira at gmail.com>
wrote:

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> On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 17:29 Kathleen Lu, <kathleen.lu at mapbox.com> wrote:
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>> I'm curious as to the reason for your doubts, Nuno. Are you aware of case
>> law to the contrary?
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> I'm just surprised we adopted a license that seems to be useless in USA,
> according to corporate interpretation of the license even if it's for
> commercial purposes. Seems like we have a public domain license after all.
> Thank god these companies are not Corporate members of OSMF, don't need to
> give a good example and neither provide worldwide services.
> Reminds me of cruise ship registrations or tax heavens. Seem we also have
> license heavens.
>
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