Iván Sánchez Ortega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The "All rights reserved" may be misleading. They'll be basically weaving all > rights: > > The only peculiar thing is that, when you have to attribute the City, you > can't say "This data comes from the Ville de Sherbrooke government" > or "Courtesy Ville de Sherbrooke". You *have* to say "© Ville blah blah blah, > all rights reserved".
I knew these two points sounded familiar: <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2007-April/000308.html> (No coincidence: I was told they based their license on GeoGratis'. They merely added more legalese.) Unfortunately, given the cold reception given to GeoGratis last time, I can't say this fills me with great confidence. :( > Moreover, depending on the canadian law, there is an easy workaround for this > license: you're explicitly granted all rights over any modifications of the > data. In certain jurisdictions, just converting the data to another format is > a modification. Do the math. Yeah, that *is* weird. I wonder if their lawyers intended to say that. -- Not only Guinness - Linux is good for you, too. -- Banzai on IRC _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
