Ehud Shabtai who started and established Freemap and Waze constantly insisted to crowdsource data without utilizing external sources or projects like Open, Street, Map that would limit commercialization of the Waze map information. Beginning with Waze v3 the application was rewritten and as such changed to an exclusive license. The last open-source customer version for the i, Phone and Android is 2.
0, and for Windows Mobile 2. 0. A class action match was submitted in March 2014 by accounting professional Roey Gorodish against Waze, claiming copyright violation for making use of open-source Free, Map map and code from the open-source Road, Map software, a job that Ehud Shabtai had contributed for the Windows Pocket, PC variation in 2006.
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