Hi Igor, I'd like to address a couple of points.
On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 3:19 PM, Igor Brejc <igor.br...@gmail.com> wrote: > Not one company will dare to give out their proprietary source code to > someone, even if they release it under a very strict license. The risks of > someone inadvertently then pasting that code on pastebin (example) are just > too great - and there's no way back. This is not a problem of ODbL. If the end user distributes the source code against the wishes of the publisher then the user did so illegally. It's no different than if someone were to distribute MS Office binaries via Bittorrent against the EULA. Also, as Frederik mentioned, you don't have to to share the source code. Even a proprietary binary program (with all the DRM you want to prevent illegal distribution) would suffice. > What's the purpose of it all, anyway? :) If someone releases the source code > to a single person which then cannot share it with others, how does the > larger OSM community then benefit from it all? The point here is not to share and give away software or source code but to share and give away data. Eugene _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
