On 16 April 2011 23:37, Ed Avis <[email protected]> wrote: > Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes: > >>I would like a big player with a big legal department - say, for >>example, Navteq - grabbing our data for a reasonably well mapped place, >>perhaps a city only, incorporating it into their data set in way that it >>either obvious (i.e. we can easily prove that they did it), or maybe >>they even admit it. Then I would like someone who has contributed data >>in that area to sue them, and I would like the lawsuit to have an >>outcome that hurts the big player > > Hmm... so the fact that such grabbing of data has never occurred does not > count > as evidence for you. This is problematic, since in general things only go to > court if the legal status is questionable. If it's reasonably certain, the > side > that's in the wrong will back down long before then. For example, I don't > think > the GNU GPL has ever gone to court.
Yes it has. Harald Welte's gpl-violations.org has hundreds of cases resolved successfully either in court or outside, including some very big software and hardware companies. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
