Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Attribution chaining

2008-08-05 Per discussione Rob Myers
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Frederik Ramm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: if I offer processed OSM data on my web site for others to use under CC-BY-SA: Whom do the others have to give attribution? I usually expect everyone to retain the OpenStreetMap contributors message and leave me (or my

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

2008-05-07 Per discussione Rob Myers
Sebastian Spaeth wrote: In Linux that problem is solved by companies bying their product from Redhat, including some kind of insurance that RedHat provides. If there are legal hassles, then Redhat would be sued and RedHat would have to deal with the 2 copyright holders and not the

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Please enable commercial use

2008-05-06 Per discussione Rob Myers
Which particular FUD do you have in mind? ;-) *Any* licence will carry legal risks. Paying for a proprietary dataset without talking the licence through with a lawyer would be silly. There is no reason why a free licence should be any different. Simple licences are not necessarily easier to

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] legal-talk Digest, Vol 19, Issue 1

2008-03-01 Per discussione Rob Myers
John Wilbanks wrote: ps - Those of you interested in copyleft and freedom might want to interview Stallman on this issue as well. I tend not to agree with him on non-software issues but I would be very interested to know what he thinks, particularly since he has just been through a major

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Progressing OSM to a new data Licence regime

2008-02-04 Per discussione Rob Myers
MJ Ray wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] If you think it's a bad idea for another reason, then fine, but room for mischief applies to almost all licences. Ultimately, whether work is Free and Open with a capital F O is how it's actually handled in practice. By room for mischief I mean

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