Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Ulf Möller
Jukka Rahkonen schrieb: > And if the maintainer of the derived database has a > community that continues to collect new data under ODbL 1.0 terms, and the > main > OSM has advanced to ODbL 1.1 or something, is it possible to exchange data > between these two systems? According to RC1, you could

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Gervase Markham wrote: > The way of avoiding it seeming to be FUD is to have a clause like: > > "Nothing in this licence attempts to restrict your rights under fair use > or a similar doctrine". Sounds like: "We have a honest desire to sue the shit out of you if you violate any of our 52

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Jukka Rahkonen
Ulf Möller writes: > > Jukka Rahkonen schrieb: > > > But what if OSMF is changing the license and somebody has > > managed to base some business on top of derived database licensed under the old > > ODbL license? Dou you lawyers say that it is a sound basis for building a > > business? For

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Matt Amos
On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Peter Miller wrote: > There is both the situation were OSM bulk-imports some data > from another source into OSM that is published as ODbL where the > original data owner can not be contacted which I would hope would be > possible, under the ODbL as proposed, i do

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Q&A with a lawyer

2009-05-13 Thread Gervase Markham
On 12/05/09 09:37, Frederik Ramm wrote: > Claiming copyright on something where you are not reasonably sure of > actually having it is, in my eyes, a FUD maneouvre worthy of players > like the OS, but something that we should make an attempt to steer clear of. The way of avoiding it seeming to be