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

Tom Hughes tom at compton.nu
Sat Apr 16 23:08:52 BST 2011


On 16/04/11 22:37, Ed Avis wrote:

> Hmm... so the fact that such grabbing of data has never occurred does not count
> as evidence for you.  This is problematic, since in general things only go to
> court if the legal status is questionable.  If it's reasonably certain, the side
> that's in the wrong will back down long before then.  For example, I don't think
> the GNU GPL has ever gone to court.

Then you think wrong:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl#The_GPL_in_court

Tom

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