[Openstreetmap] Coders needed for similar project & UK FOIactrequest update.

[Lars Aronsson]

Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> It's not just Steve and me who think this. Take a look at
> http://www.kingston.ac.uk/gis/ppt/EDINA05.pdf , particularly page 16.

I don't know the person who wrote this (Mike J Smith, is he on 
this list?)  or how he arrived at the conclusion.  Did the OS tell 
him?  Or did a court of law tell him?  That is a big difference.  
People who claim to "own" copyright will tell you anything, and 
often they get away with it because the user knows even less.  
Can you point me to a court case?  Could it be appealed to the 
European Court of Human Rights?

The important conclusion in the same presentation comes on page 
22: "These issues force non-OS solutions".  Maybe the writer 
exaggerates the copyright inheritance issue in order to push this 
conclusion?  Note that he specifically says non-OS, not 
non-proprietary, non-Google or non-TeleAtlas.


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  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
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