[OSM-talk] Dual/Multiple licencing

[John Smith]

2009/12/15 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> No, if you break copyright law you can be taken to court to make sure you
> don't break copyright law in the future.  If "break licenses", then, well,
> it depends on the license.  In the case of CC-BY-SA, if you breach the terms

You are confusing contracts with licenses, works are licensed in a
particular way to tell you what the author has allowed you to do under
copyright, cc-by-sa is a copyright license, which is the whole point,
cc-by-sa/copyright alone have been deemed to not be sufficient to
protect geodata, which is why people are adding contract law and
database law into the mix.

> of the license, the license is terminated.  You are then sued, not for
> "breach of license", but for a violation of copyright law.  Unlike breach of

That would be like saying GPL, which is a license, is a contract and
you can be sued for breach of contract but that isn't the case, people
that break the GPL requirements are taken to court because of
breaching copyright.

> Read Jacobsen v. Katzer, and the commentary on it, and then get back to us.

I think you need to do a little more reading, you are confusing things
between contract and copyright law.