I find that it scares me that OSM tools are being locked down. One we have flash tools that need a non free runtime, and developers who dont give a damn, then we have this silverlight drama about to unfold. The tools should not be dependant on one license or server or one point of view.
We need to adopt a more neutral point of view like wikipedia has, and stop pushing people towards one technology or license. I maintain that competition will help and not harm osm as a project, and that Is why I support creative and not destructive usages of osm and its tools and data in different ways. We need to make sure the tools are open and free, and to be used without a specific purpose or intent. Putting in code changes for the purpose of motivating a certain behavior, to motivate a license change or purpose of usage to limit it to a certain server is wrong in my view. thanks, mike On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Harvey <[email protected]> wrote: > "nearmap does not support the planned license change so we'd rather > have people using bing" --frederik > > Where is the license information from bing that makes deriving > information from their maps compatiable with OSM? > > Time to fork josm... fjosm! > -- James Michael DuPont Member of Free Libre Open Source Software Kosova and Albania flossk.org flossal.org _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
