SteveC wrote:
The very quick story is that they don't believe copyright can be applied
to any geospatial data. Thus creative commons licenses don't work, since
The thing with that argument is that there are lots of people with data
and money who probably hold the opposite view, eg Ordnance Survey.
This was data only right, not cartographic interpretations eg maps?
they depend on copyright. So people providing data have two options -
public domain or make a contract that completely restricts it.
To add to that, if anyone really believed that then we'd all be copying
out the vector data and street names from tons of maps... so something's
not right?
have fun,
SteveC [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.asklater.com/steve/
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