Hi, On 04/16/2011 10:35 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
what, exactly, would persuade you that this isn't a realistic possibility?
I would like a big player with a big legal department - say, for example, Navteq - grabbing our data for a reasonably well mapped place, perhaps a city only, incorporating it into their data set in way that it either obvious (i.e. we can easily prove that they did it), or maybe they even admit it. Then I would like someone who has contributed data in that area to sue them, and I would like the lawsuit to have an outcome that hurts the big player (e.g. either that they have to pay a lot of money or that they have to release all their data or all their customers who used that data have to release whatever they built on top or something).
And preferably I would like all this to take place in a non-European country with a reasonably well developed rule of law, e.g. the USA.
If that happened, then I would be convinced that our data was indeed well protected by CC-BY-SA. It would still not be great (because it takes an individual to sue, and OSMF can't) but it would be sufficient.
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