On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 4:18 AM, Robin Paulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I thought the whole point of this > > project was to get away from crap like that... > > well, partly. but the practicality is that we need a license that says > 'do this if you want to use our data' to protect it from bad people, > so it's not unreasonable for people who donate large amounts to us to > do similar
Umm, there are many people contributing who would like their data to be public domain. I don't think we need a licence to protect the data at all. The licence is to protect us, as *users* from companies blindsiding us by changing terms/asking money/limiting usage. When I use OSM data I know there are no limitations how or where I can use it. You're proposing changing that and I object. It basically has the same problems as the original BSD advertising clause. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BSD_license#UC_Berkeley_advertising_clause It sucked then and it sucks now. We don't want it. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk
