Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Rob Myers
On 03/21/2011 06:31 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote: Effectively policing *any* license would very likely require a *multiple* of OSMF's whole current budget. The FSF has one paid compliance officer to look after the whole of GNU and any other cases that they get involved in. gpl-violations.org is

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread Robert Kaiser
Frederik Ramm schrieb: I think all that is needed is a clear statement from OSMF saying that they don't feel responsible for chasing up violators Such a statement would invite everyone to use our data freely and without attribution or license care as it basically says "the organization govern

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license

2011-03-21 Thread David Groom
- Original Message - From: "Michael Collinson" To: "Licensing and other legal discussions." Sent: Sunday, March 20, 2011 4:23 PM Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Someone ought to do something ... dealing with violations of OSM's geodata license This is a general question for discussio