Nuno, this isn't about what the license allows, it's about the law. You can't re-write the law. What the law allows it would allow even if there was no license at all. And I would also note that, frankly, the EU is the outlier in this respect in having database protections at all (and I would not say that even EU database protections would prohibit as small an excerpt as a screenshot, though "substantial" is undefined in the Directive). The majority of the world does not have database protections, so if any analogy is fair, it's a bit of the reverse, with the EU being a "database haven".
On Thu, Oct 31, 2019 at 10:37 AM Nuno Caldeira <nunocapelocalde...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Thu, 31 Oct 2019, 17:29 Kathleen Lu, <kathleen...@mapbox.com> wrote: > >> I'm curious as to the reason for your doubts, Nuno. Are you aware of case >> law to the contrary? >> > > I'm just surprised we adopted a license that seems to be useless in USA, > according to corporate interpretation of the license even if it's for > commercial purposes. Seems like we have a public domain license after all. > Thank god these companies are not Corporate members of OSMF, don't need to > give a good example and neither provide worldwide services. > Reminds me of cruise ship registrations or tax heavens. Seem we also have > license heavens. > >>
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