| Psychoslave added a comment. |
In T193728#4204019, @TomT0m wrote:The more I personnaly dig into this questions, the more issues are opened and the less clear it becomes that there is an actual issue, and if there is an actual issue if there is a legal risk. Or even if there is a moral or ethical issue: I think we will all agree here that pure facts can be used by anyone (beyond private life one).
Well, discussing face to face with a professional lawyer specialised on free licenses didn't led me toward the same conclusion of "it's clear there is no problem", unfortunately. Apparently there might be possibilities of "class action" on copyright infringement. She said she could provide more information later, I will forward that to confirm/infirm the validity of that concern.
I think that to go on, we should avoid assertions about "use of pure facts by anyone", the vagueness of this formulae doesn't help. We should first agree that the problem is really about "substantial transfer of data", which is already equivocal enough without us adding more ambiguity to the topic.
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