On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 10:48 PM, Richard Welty <[email protected]> wrote: > we got some. Carl Frantzen of Talking Points Memo asked me about coming to > SOTM US and > i urged him to do so. he did and here we are: > > http://idealab.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/10/openstreetmap-part-1-new-cartographers.php
Not quite sure what the little paragraph about "move away from its open source roots." is all about. He kind of dropped that in there like a live hand grenade and then didn't say any more about it. Apparently this will be in parts 2 and 3. Having been at the session where I think this statement came from, I can assure everyone that there was absolutely no talk about moving away from an open license! :) The discussion was about the fact that some companies are very afraid of share-alike licenses and it is preventing them from using our data to its fullest potential. There is some uncertainty about when exactly the share-alike clause is activated. One specific example that was mentioned: If you use OSM data to geocode a user's address, does the user database then have to be shared? That's apparently how the lawyers tend to read it but in my mind this would be silly. We have no use for a company's user database even if it were possible to release it without breaking every privacy law on the books. So I think it is mostly just some clarifications that need to be made and as I understand it, there are people who are probably already working on this. Toby _______________________________________________ Talk-us mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-us
