On 7 Mar 2009, at 23:56, OJ W <ojwli...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 7, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv- > gm...@gerv.net> wrote: >> b) If people are reverse-engineering our stuff, they need a >> massive, sustained, continuous Mechanical Turk effort > > unless they create SVG files that just happen to contain the same data > as OSM files and we add a loophole that says SVG files are a derived > work instead of a database, thus allowing wtfyw license to be applied.
My evil alter ego would be quite interested in developing a version of the cycle map that whilst looking a bit strange just so happened to be quite easy to run OMR over. Perhaps Dave's evil alter ego would find writing such an Optical Map Recogniser interesting... I think without the reverse engineering clause, you may as well make it PD in the first place.. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
