On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 8:21 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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 > the data and just use it, but then it becomes much harder for them to > in turn claim any sort of copyright on their own work, not to mention > all the bad press they would get from it.
There is one legitimate fear, though. Some company in an EU state can extract the non-copyrightable parts of OSM (*) and add it to their database which is protected under the sui generis database right, thereby subverting the principle of sharealike. As far as I can tell, this is still possible under CC-BY-SA 3.0 Unported. It's almost certainly possible under CC-BY-SA 2.0 Unported. If the license change fixed that, and only that, without "fixing" a dozen other non-problems, I'd be in favor of it. Maybe we shouldn't abandon the relicensing effort, but start a new relicensing effort, focussed on fixing the problems with CC-BY-SA without adding on a dozen other special interest fixes like Produced Works and Contributor Terms and Contract Law. (*) Some will argue this is all of OSM, some will argue this is part of OSM, but I think pretty much everyone agrees that some of it is non-copyrightable. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
