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

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Sat Apr 16 23:13:34 BST 2011


On 16 April 2011 23:37, Ed Avis <eda en waniasset.com> wrote:
> Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes:
>
>>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
>
> 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.

Yes it has.  Harald Welte's gpl-violations.org has hundreds of cases
resolved successfully either in court or outside, including some very
big software and hardware companies.

Cheers



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