Hi, David Groom wrote: > From this I infer that, unless a "Person" is in breach of the Terms of the > licence, we give them the right to access the OSM database under the terms > of the licence as it was at the time they first started to use the database.
I think you are mixing up the terms "database" and "database". It's easy to do because they are so similar ,-) 1. A "database" is a collection of independent works, data or other materials arranged in a systematic or methodical way and individually accessible by electronic or other means. 2. A "database", on the other hand, is a machine which you can access using specific queries to retrieve data. If we terminate the license, this does not mean that anyone who has downloaded our database (1st definition) must now play to other rules. The license that was valid when they downloaded the database will continue ad infinitum for that downloaded database. Access to our database (2nd definition), however, can be governed by any rules we like, and we can change them as we see fit. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
