Quoting Frederik Ramm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > >>> As the front page of the wiki says, "most maps...actually have >>> legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back >>> people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways". >> >> A copyleft licence prevents such restrictions from being imposed. > > Wrong, a copyleft license IS a restriction.
Possibly I should have said that copyleft "prevents further restrictions", but I don't think that it compares. Copyleft is a restriction only on restrictions. This is of a different character and order to the kind of practical legal and technical restrictions on use that restrictive licences and DRM can impose on downstream PD map users. Leaving restrictions unrestricted does not pass freedom on to other people, it passes on the ability to remove freedom from other people. That is not freedom, it is power, and its removal by copyleft is not a particularly heinous loss. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
