[OSM-talk] What is there to be won by having a License

Niklas Cholmkvist towardsoss at gmail.com
Fri Dec 11 13:00:57 GMT 2009


> I still have to see the advantage of having a license at all.

Do you live in a country that has signed the Berne Convention? You can see
here at wikipedia if your country is involved:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_copyright_agreements

Having no license at all and while your country has signed the Berne
Convention means legally "don't touch my work, unless you ask, and I
willingly give you my permission". Suddenly lots of things become illegal,
unless you provide a notice saying for example "without asking me for
permission I grant you commercial or non-commercial use, and you can change
this data and distribute the data etc etc..

Niklas

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Niklas Holmkvist
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