Andy Allan wrote: > I think without the reverse engineering clause, you may as well > make it PD in the first place..
The previous thread abuses the language. The term "reverse engineering" (as used in discussions about GPL or patents) means to break up a box to see how things work on the inside, to derive the engineering drawing (or editable source code) from the physical object (or from a software binary). OpenStreetMap doesn't have any closed box that needs to be broken. All is open source. We hide no secrets. What you're talking about here is various ways to circumvent the licensing. And if we were to allow that, we could just as well put everything in the public domain, as Andy said. But that is not "reverse engineering". -- Lars Aronsson ([email protected]) Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
