nick.whitelegg@solent.ac.uk (Nick Whitelegg) wrote in
news:c12cf038.0410031341.26d30a5d@posting.google.com: 

> Andrew Whaley <no.more@spam.thank.you> wrote in message
> news:<cjpgsm$3ls$1@titan.btinternet.com>... 
>> 4. How are you going to prevent your dataset being polluted with 
>> copyrighted OS data ? I see that you have the user agreement to
>> ask people not to submit traced OS data but you have no way to
>> prevent this. Indeed the OS could anonymously submit some of
>> their own data to Freemap in order to close you down !
> 
> I doubt they'd do something like that, despite enforcing their
> copyright in rather draconian ways I'd expect them to behave
> honourably. Wouldn't that be illegal (against competition laws)
> anyhow? If not, very sleazy. I really can't see the OS descending
> that low.

In short, No.  If fact they'd be perfectly within their rights. But, 
if you weren't commercially expoliting the info, and noone else was 
they might turn a blind eye ... Might!

GusTav.
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