[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[John Smith]

On 24 June 2011 07:39, Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at> wrote:
> Well, it has been stated multiple times that it was a lawyer opinion that

Francis Davey, who also claims to be a lawyer, gave an opposite opinion.

> CC-BY-SA didn't apply to our data, and factual databases aren't protected by

Which is a false premise, map data isn't factual data and copyright on
maps doesn't care if they are stored in a database or in print form,
making maps takes creative effort, take 10 different mappers and give
them the same sources and you will end up with different end results.

> CC-BY-SA be applicable to factual databases, but unfortunately also doesn't

We're not dealing with a factual database, we're dealing with map data
that just happens to be stored in DB form.