On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:55 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> PR is more important than legal. As most people on this list know, with
> CC-BY-SA being next to invalid for Geodata in the US, any of the big US
> players could long have taken our data an run. Why haven't they?

Because they also distribute the data outside the US?  Because "next
to invalid" isn't the same as invalid?  Because if a license is
invalid, then everything falls back to "all rights reserved"?  Because
they'd have to simultaneously take the position that their data is
protected but ours isn't?

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