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

[Grant Slater]

On 16 April 2011 23:36, 80n <80n80n at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> 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.
>
> We've waited five years for this to happen.  CC-BY-SA licensed data is
> clearly not very attractive to these people.  Perhaps the quality of
> the data is not good enough for them?  Or perhaps they realise that it
> would be a net loss for them to infringe copyright.
>

If this is what you have been complaining about then you have half
missed the point.
There are people who have chosen NOT TO USE OSM because of legal
ambigutity and points in the CC-BY-SA license which we (some?) in the
community chose to ignore.

Good read and background: "Facilitating Collaboration On Geospatial
Data Using Social and Legal Norms" -
http://www.nyls.edu/user_files/1/3/4/30/58/1134/DatabaseLicensing_110207.pdf

Regards
 Grant