Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-28 Thread Matt Amos
On 10/28/09, Erik Johansson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Matt Amos wrote: >> we had a long thread on this a couple of weeks ago (ODbL "virality" >> questions) from which i think the consensus was that linking OSM data >> with data from independent sources creates a collective databas

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-27 Thread Ed Avis
Matt Amos writes: [CC-BY-SA unclear, or not permissive enough?] >>>We know for a fact that a number of people (especially people that have >>>asked their lawyers for an opinion) have indeed decided not to use our >>>data for this reason. >> >>That is certainly a good reason to switch to a simple

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-26 Thread Ed Avis
Frederik Ramm writes: >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000637.html > >I don't know if the License Working Group have pursued this further in >the mean time; at the time, we arrived at roughly the same conclusion >that you did (we can sue them for damages but i

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] ODBL enforcement: contract law and remedies

2009-10-26 Thread Frederik Ramm
Ed, the question "what avenues do we have open if someone breaches the contract" has been discussed on legal-talk, for example in this thread: http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2008-February/000637.html I don't know if the License Working Group have pursued this further in