On 04/02/2010 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.
No. Free means free, and that includes people and organisations that you don't agree with. Once we start imposing politically-based decisions on who can or can't use the data, we stop being a resource and start being a pressure group, and that's not what I believe OSM to be about. How do you determine what's military use, anyway? Is a private contractor working for the armed forces military use? Is a member of the armed forces working in their spare time military use? More pertinently, is members of armed forces working in an area recently hit by a natural disaster military use? -- Jonathan (Jonobennett) _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
