This is pretty much in line with Francis' claim about copyright being on maps, and copyright law not stating anything about the form the map comes in, but of course without court cases on the matter we're all left guessing.
Next problem with the Garmin maps, suppose they use extracts from Geofabrik, who sources data from OSM directly, but someone abuses the Garmin maps, would OSM-F have to sue Geofabrik and in turn sue who ever produced the Garmin maps to enforce the contract part of ODBL? What happens if the person downloading the Garmin map packs doesn't abuse them directly, but puts them up via p2p, and OSM-F is removed from the actual offender by 10 degrees of separation, how will the ODBL actually be enforced, the recent Waze issue was a good example, they copied the data from another party, what has actually happened to the other party to stop them selling the data to others? _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
