On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 12:56 PM, Luis Villa <[email protected]> wrote:
[ ... ] > But it is a reality that [ fear of a Share Alike obligation(?)]* slows, > or in some cases stops, adoption of/contribution to OSM. Slows contribution to OpenStreetMap? That sounds incorrect to me. ODbL and particularly Share Alike _encourage_ contribution to OpenStreetMap. One very simple way to be sure you are Sharing Alike is to make your improvements to the OpenStreetMap data first, then consume and reuse the data. That's probably the ideal consumer of OpenStreetMap data; the consumer who shares their improvements first then consumes the data unchanged. And it is a rock solid, dead simple way to meet your Share Alike obligations. Does avoidance of Share Alike obligations reduce adoption of OpenStreetMap data? Perhaps it does reduce adoption by those who have decided to not improve the OpenStreetMap data by sharing their potential improvements. Those who could improve OpenStreetMap data but who chose not to do so are excluding themselves from participating fully in the OpenStreetMap community. That is their choice. We as OpenStreetMap contributors see "improving the data" as a core value. * I hope that I have parsed your intent correctly, Luis. The paragraph I trimmed also discussed copyright case law and lack of case law for "substantial" in this context. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
