On Friday 27 February 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Hi, > > Ben Laenen wrote: > > I care about whether the database will still > > be "clean" after a possible change (meaning, properly licensed). > > The current license is anything but "properly licensed".
At least it's under one license, and no-one questions that it's licensed under that license. That's what I mean with "properly licensed". > If you take a *strict* view then we're all violating CC-BY-SA every > day by not listing every individual contributor, and we're also > violating the database rights of the operator of the database because > nowhere does CC-BY-SA grant you the permission required by European > law to use someone else's database. > > If you take a *relaxed* view then all our data is un-protected anyway > because facts are not copyrightable. With that relaxed view I'd be copying teleatlas maps by now. Ben _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
