Another article:

http://www.zdnet.com/waze-founder-faces-legal-battle-in-isra...

It is not clear to me if this is a software license violation or just their using crowdsourced data/ something else.

A bit in the Haaretz article is more explicit:

Gorodish says that when Freemap started, Shabtai, Shinar and Levine gave community members a document saying that the project was owned by the community. Later, when Waze was founded, the three men unilaterally changed the terms of the agreement in what amounts to intellectual property theft and copyright infringement, he says.

Sounds like a dispute over whether there was an understanding in place as to the terms on which people were contributing, and if so what the terms of the agreement were, and/or whether it's legally enforceable.

It's hard to find anything about what the license was with http://freemap.co.il/ down.

This is interesting:

https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2008-January/...

(Basically it says that Ehud Shabtai was claiming ownership of the data at that point in time, it doesn't address whatever was said earlier.)

> It's hard to find anything about what the license was with http://freemap.co.il/ down.

The Wayback Machine has some old versions, this being the earliest, from April 2006: https://web.archive.org/web/20060409000239/http://www.freema...

Or change the user agent to a search robot.

You might be better of pointing to the pastebin or an open site. I was actually going to complain in the comments about the paywall which is why I saw the pastebin.

Flagged. Pirating content from behind a pay-wall isn't ok. If you don't want to pay for the content then don't read/upvote it.

(You can of-course write up your own article based upon what you learnt from the underlying article)

Totally agree on the content stealing, but the fact that an article most people can't read got so far up the front page is also worrying.

Probably because the paywall doesn't show for everyone or it's somewhat random, perhaps even based on hits?

If that's the case then seriously, that crap needs to stop. Paste at will.

Shouldnt the conclusion then be that apparently enough people can read it to make it worth a HN frontpage listing?

It looks like you got downvoted a bit for saying this, sorry. You're totally right. If enough people /can/ see it that it can get to the front page then fair enough. I was feeling a little more cynical earlier, assuming that the voters hadn't read it.

You can actually read ten articles a month on the site with a free registration.