On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Ed Avis <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. >
Are you sure they haven't? Yeah, they haven't taken everything, unreviewed and unedited. But that would be a pretty bad idea anyway.
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