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

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Sun Apr 17 02:16:14 BST 2011


On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:36 PM, 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.

Navteq would be in a lose-lose situation:

1) They lose the case, and have to release their data under CC-BY-SA.
2) They win the case, by successfully arguing that all data (including
theirs) is public domain.



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