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...