Kai Krueger <kakrueger@...> writes: >The draft for 4.0 now explicitly licenses database rights and addresses >licensing of databases. However, it does not extend restrictions through >contract where copyright and database rights do not restrict usage in the >first place.
It's an open question whether ODbL does that. It purports to, but how effective and enforceable is the contract it claims to enter into? I had hoped to get some legal opinions on this subject but the lawyers I employed told me that since the copyright part of the licence was enforceable (in the USA), they thought the contract-law enforceability was of academic interest only and they had not researched further. >It also does not have the concept of produced works. It doesn't, no. I wonder whether a weaker but still compatible licence could be made by adding additional 'at your option' provisions. -- Ed Avis <[email protected]> _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
