On 6 Feb 2008, at 11:59, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > >> On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:52:24AM +0100, Frederik Ramm wrote: >>> Let us drop all this nonsense and concentrate on drawing up the >>> moral >>> guidelines - saying what we consider ok and what not - instead of >>> fantasizing about having legal powers to enforce anything. >> >> I don't get it : you go on about how license such and such is >> possibly unenforceable and then you propose moral guidelines >> that are 100% guaranteed not enforceable. I fail to see progress. > > Well my position is the enlightened one: We can't enforce anything,
Why do you think we can't enforce anything? > Someone brought up 80n's example of how in [EMAIL PROTECTED], we actually > use a big PNG image with one pixel for each Level-12 tile as a > database, telling us which tiles are land tiles and which are sea > tiles. So there's a database for you; at the same time, we say that > images created from OSM data (mashups etc) are not databases in the > sense of the license. This is one of, I'm sure, many points that will > never be solved clearly and properly. That's what we have case law for though? have fun, SteveC | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.asklater.com/steve/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk