2009/12/15 Anthony <[email protected]>: > No, if you break copyright law you can be taken to court to make sure you > don't break copyright law in the future. If "break licenses", then, well, > it depends on the license. In the case of CC-BY-SA, if you breach the terms
You are confusing contracts with licenses, works are licensed in a particular way to tell you what the author has allowed you to do under copyright, cc-by-sa is a copyright license, which is the whole point, cc-by-sa/copyright alone have been deemed to not be sufficient to protect geodata, which is why people are adding contract law and database law into the mix. > of the license, the license is terminated. You are then sued, not for > "breach of license", but for a violation of copyright law. Unlike breach of That would be like saying GPL, which is a license, is a contract and you can be sued for breach of contract but that isn't the case, people that break the GPL requirements are taken to court because of breaching copyright. > Read Jacobsen v. Katzer, and the commentary on it, and then get back to us. I think you need to do a little more reading, you are confusing things between contract and copyright law. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
