On 10 December 2010 08:28, Francis Davey <fjm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Eg, the open government licence (UK) requires that certain conditions > are met, eg that data protection rules are not broken and that a form > of attribution is used. The contributor would be in breach of the > licence if they contributed without ensuring attribution at the time > of contribution (for instance). > > But, _after_ the contributor has made their contribution, they don't > need to rely on the licence to do any act restricted by IP rights. The > contributor has ceased copying/making available to the public etc. The > contributor cannot be primarily liable after that, whatever OSMF may > do. >
My mistake: I doubt that the UK open government licence is sufficiently "viral" for this to be a possibility. I am sure readers can think of some more specific example of licence/licence violation and it might be useful to have one concrete example to work with. Moral: anything I type before 9:00am is going to be suspect. -- Francis Davey _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
