-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Myers wrote: > On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Allan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it an intended side effect of the license to discourage >> internet-based distribution of derivative dbs? > > I wouldn't have thought so. :-) > >> My suggestion would be >> that recovering "reasonable production cost" should also be extended >> to "reasonable distribution cost" for internet distribution too. My >> idea would be that the marginal cost (i.e. the bandwidth for the given >> download) is recoverable, but not e.g. man hours in setting up the >> download server. >> >> Any thoughts? > > How much would it cost for bandwidth to serve a single copy of the > current OSM DB?
Andy answered that in the message you are replying to, but you edited his answer out. "If we take the current case - a planet download is 4.5Gb and (for the sake of an example) Amazon S3 download costs start at USD0.17 per gigabyte, it would cost me currently *0.76 dollars per download*." That could be a significant cost if you get lots of downloads. Only about 4/day would cost over $100 per month. Also, the current data is probably less than 10% of the data we aim to collect, and it is likely people will combining the data with other data, e.g. SRTM, which could be much larger. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkkFv0AACgkQz+aYVHdncI1lnwCgnE656BpPWqX+Rd7s2EPx+D8h DtwAoMLVBaF1316DEQ5a/t6r708fmZxV =7JXE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
