On Wed, 2011-05-04 at 15:31 +1000, Ian Sergeant wrote: > > This is the Australian list, in case you didn't realise > > Ah, so you are speaking for all Australians!
Well, I have yet to hear any Australians complain about the freedom of the data, other than being incompatible with the new one-of-a-kind licence that OSM is wanting to use. > As I said, I'm glad you have such faith in your government > institutions, but OSM was largely formed because of government > restrictions over the use of its data (i.e OS copyright), and I think > the OSM community has the demonstrated capacity and capability to make > its own decisions, rather than having to follow what the Australian > government or any other government specifies. A lot of data has been imported to the Australian OSM map from freely (as free as OSM has always been anyway) given government sources and datasets. I always assumed that it was groups like google, yahoo, bing and the like that we were trying to be more open than, not those who actually opened access to their data. > So at least this Australian born, Australian resident, 5-year > Australian OSM contributor doesn't necessarily think whatever is good > enough for the Australian government is necessarily good enough for us > all. What legal expertise do you have which you believes makes you think youve found problems that the government copyright lawyers didnt with the licence they chose? Do you also disagree with the licence that OSM has been distributed under for the past 5 years? After all, it is the same licence the Australian government (and apparently now NZ government) are using, and will continue to use. David _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
