[OSM-talk] GeoHipster comment on OSM

[Steve Coast]

> On May 1, 2015, at 7:09 AM, Tom MacWright <tom at macwright.org> wrote:
> 
> Perhaps TeleNav or Bing's lawyers are brave enough to say ODbL is not a problem, or they guess that those entities could absorb the lawsuit. They are the only lawyers who take this stance, and they haven't tested it - neither company provides permanent OSM-derived geocoding.

Maybe. Either way, if somebody’s product strategy is driven by legal then something is wrong.

Imagine a startup environment: huge risks with capital and everything else anyway, why wouldn’t legal be another risk?

Steve