[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 04/16/2011 10:35 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
> what, exactly, would persuade you
> that this isn't a realistic possibility?

I would like a big player with a big legal department - say, for 
example, Navteq - grabbing our data for a reasonably well mapped place, 
perhaps a city only, incorporating it into their data set in way that it 
either obvious (i.e. we can easily prove that they did it), or maybe 
they even admit it. Then I would like someone who has contributed data 
in that area to sue them, and I would like the lawsuit to have an 
outcome that hurts the big player (e.g. either that they have to pay a 
lot of money or that they have to release all their data or all their 
customers who used that data have to release whatever they built on top 
or something).

And preferably I would like all this to take place in a non-European 
country with a reasonably well developed rule of law, e.g. the USA.

If that happened, then I would be convinced that our data was indeed 
well protected by CC-BY-SA. It would still not be great (because it 
takes an individual to sue, and OSMF can't) but it would be sufficient.

Bye
Frederik