On 02/04/2010 09:15 PM, Rob Myers wrote: > On 04/02/10 14:49, Martin Koppenhoefer wrote: >> AFAIK our current license offers our data for everyone who attributes >> correctly, but I'd like to raise the issue of malicious use of our >> data by governmental organisations. What do you thing about setting up >> a paragraph that prohibits the use of our data for military and >> intelligence services? Not that I'm hoping this would seriously >> prevent the use in case we have useful data to them, but still it >> would be a statement.
[...] > A discriminatory licence would prevent all of these benefits while not > preventing military or espionage use or creation of other map data that > we do not get access to. > > I mention these points as illustrations of the argument that abandoning > a commitment to freedom would be bad, not in addition to it. I agree on that. Imho freedom and openness in this context is what counts. And if they were to use our data (with proper attribution) and maybe even contribute to it, I don't see a reason why _we_ shouldn't be open. Kind regards, Stefan _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
