Ed Avis wrote: > Might it not be possible, given that there are many firms with more than > capable > legal departments, who are more than capable of taking advantage of such a > loophole, that there is slightly more to it than the simple mantra of 'our > licence does not apply'?
Yes, there is more to it: Our data isn't consistently better than that of any of the big map providers. In addition, the risk is still rather high that a license change would happen soon after such an incident, and the dataset under the old license would quickly become outdated. So any reasonably intelligent evil company™ would wait until there is more data up for grabs, and until it has become so hard for us to change our license that we cannot even do so in order to defend against obvious abuse. Or, of course, our license and/or concerns about bad publicity are actually sufficient to "protect" our data. But the lack of incidents until now doesn't really tell us whether that's the case. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
