2009/12/8 Ed Avis <[email protected]>: > John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 <at> gmail.com> writes: > >>If GPLv3 was inspired by Tivo, I think this license is somewhat >>inspired by Google and other commercial mapping companies, who have a >>habbit of sucking in all the data they can get their hands on and not >>giving anything back. > > Google have recently started using their own set of map data for the USA. > If it were possible for them to take OSM data under the current licence they > would have done so. This suggests that the current share-alike provisions are > working as intended.
Google is already fighting several legal battles maybe they don't need the additional bad press? _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
