Hi, Frederik Ramm wrote: > What I'm concerned with is mainly: How big is the risk of someone > "whitewashing" our data from the contractual part of the ODbL,
I should have explained: Such "whitewashing" would require someone to breach the contract by removing all licensing information and then passing on the data to a third party who then cannot become party to the contract. The important bit, to me, seems that said third party cannot be accused of any breach then. I have compared this to "grey imports": Sony sells batch of TV sets to distributor with a contract saying "only for distribution in Ukraine"; distributor breaches contract and sells in Germany; if I now buy a TV set Sony has absolutely no legal right to demand that I return the TV or that I follow whatever contractual obligations they normally impose on German customers etc.; I am a perfectly legal Sony TV set user even if I *knew* that the distributor was breaching his contract. (This is something entirely different from buying stolen goods, because Germany and probably many other jurisdictions have special rules that make it impossible to become the rightful owner of something that was stolen in the first place.) Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
