2009/12/11 Anthony <[email protected]>: > I see no evidence that that's the case. I don't think attempting to impose > a contractual agreement on others without their consent is going to work, > and I think there will be significant negative side-effects to such immoral > behavior.
I don't think immoral is the right word here, people are trying to come up with a suitable method to make sure everyone is playing fair, if the data is improved isn't it only fair that the entire community benefits from it, since whom ever improved it is obviously benefiting from OSM data in the first place. Some would see it as immoral to not give back such changes to the community. While I agree with ODBL in principal, the devil is always in the details and I'm still trying to find somewhere to obtain Australian legal advice as to how this may adversely effect the Australian OSM community. > Plus I think OSM is going to lose a huge chunk of the database over this. This would be a disaster, but some have already mentioned having a read only database with non-ODBL data and then combining it on the tile server to get round this problem, the problem with that of course is how to remove non-ODBL data when ODBL data becomes available, since you wouldn't easily be able to edit or remove such data from a read only database. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
