>"Dear Mr President, I've got this photo showing you in bed with another >man, here's my bank account where you can make a donation, in which case > will forget about it... > >... unless I need more money later in which case I might again remember"? > >Honestly, what you're suggesting smacks of blackmail.
It is a completely different story. The reason behind the action is stop others from repeating the mistakes. If you just ignore every case without consequences you fill in a blank cheque for the rest of world. You normally see roughly 100 hundred post in a mailing list in case of a misuse but not action towards the guys who were misbehaving. I think this is one of the big weaknesses of OSM: it is very good at arguing in the group but not at taking it to the outside world. There needs to be a process to educate the market. It does not help anybody to show the frustrations in mailing list. And if you have a better proposal for education then please come up with it. >I am very skeptical of legal action. If someone really takes the piss >then yes, perhaps, but it must never come to OSMF being a fundraising >machine for lawyers. Legal action can very quickly cost more than >everything else we do, and I would hate to be in a project whose main >activity, according to the balance books, is paying lawyers to sue people. If that is needed to prevent OSM from exploiting then - yes - there might be fundraising machine for legal support. However, I have not intention to artificially blow it up. I just want to create a situation where people are aware that abusing OSM data leads to consequences so that is becomes a trade-off like not buying a ticket for train. Regards, Oliver -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/OSM-legal-talk-Potential-huge-License-violation-anyone-know-anything-about-this-tp5132343p5135013.html Sent from the Legal Talk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk