Hi, > Say a company, Foo Inc, builds a business on providing services > relating > to OSM data, which includes contributing to the database. Some US > company, Bar Corp, takes OSM data and breaks the contract - e.g. by > adding their own information but keeping it proprietary.
This is an interesting idea. I am not quite sure whether the "contract" would be between OSM and the user, or between the contributor and the user. If the contract is between OSM and the user, then Foo cannot sue Bar for breach of contract because they have no contract. (Can my business sue your business because you use a pirated copy of Microsoft Windows and thus have an unfair advantage? Unsure but don't think so.) If the contract is between Foo and Bar, and Bar is using data contributed by Foo, then in what way would Bar have an unfair advantage over Foo regarding the data (since Foo, having contributed the data, can do anything they want with the data anyway)? Bye Frederik > -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ## N49°00.09' E008°23.33' _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/legal-talk
