On Jul 20, 2010, at 1:53 AM, Simon Ward wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:58:34PM +0100, Emilie Laffray wrote: >> My point was to mention that the licence is using contract law as one of the >> mechanism when no other are present, not to use other map providers as a >> reference or an example to follow. > > Why do we need contract law at all? > > I know some reason why people think we need it: Because database > rights are drastically different to non‐existent across different > jurisdictions, so we feel the need to “balance” it out by enforcing the > same for everyone using contract law. > > I don’t agree with it.
Apparently lawyers with real law degrees think we do. Here's a crazy idea: maybe they're right? Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
