On 08/30/2010 01:21 AM, John Smith wrote:
You are still making the assumption that copyright isn't valid at all, to the best of my knowledge there has been no court case about map data.
You are still assuming that copyright is universally valid despite court cases that demonstrate that it isn't.
You also seem to care more about legal technicalities than the spirit of the license, maybe some other map company could come in and take
No, this is about caring about the stated aims of the project rather than fetishising a licence that is not even recommended for use on data by its own authors.
That's before you start considering all the various government data released under copyright licenses. Are you saying all their lawyers have no clue about copyright laws, or that the governments themselves
The law in one of those various (sic) jurisdictions is still in flux. And if government IP lawyers are the same as most corporate IP lawyers they wont have a very good grasp either of the limits of copyright or of alternative licencing. Francis's post supports this.
OSM is a global project. What is correct for one government in their own jurisdiction may not be correct for another.
aren't able to change laws to make map data copyrightable?
If OSM ends up asking governments to reduce people's freedom to use map data in order to restore that freedom, do you really think that would be a good idea?
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