On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 6:36 PM, 80n <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 10:25 PM, Frederik Ramm <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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. > > We've waited five years for this to happen. CC-BY-SA licensed data is > clearly not very attractive to these people. Perhaps the quality of > the data is not good enough for them? Or perhaps they realise that it > would be a net loss for them to infringe copyright.
Navteq would be in a lose-lose situation: 1) They lose the case, and have to release their data under CC-BY-SA. 2) They win the case, by successfully arguing that all data (including theirs) is public domain. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
