On Sunday 13 Dec 2009 2:55:10 am Liz wrote: > On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, andrzej zaborowski wrote: > > > Sure, but what does it mean for geospatial data to "be free"? > > > > In short that I can improve it and send to friends. In detail I will > > take the definition from http://opendefinition.org/1.0 > > Could be just the same as the law and medical knowledge > When you go to the lawyers, you pay for the lawyer's expertise. The lawyer > looks up the law in law books, statutes etc, and uses that information for > you, without paying some licence fee or tax for that knowledge. (S)he looks > up past cases to see what points made a case go one way or the other. > That knowledge is free to use, perhaps not free as in beer, as the books > are bought from a printer / publisher.
no one goes to a lawyer for truth or justice - they go to lawyers to win their cases. > > Actually it is ironic that lawyers use free knowledge to lock up other > peoples' knowledge. what does this mean? -- regards Kenneth Gonsalves Senior Project Officer NRC-FOSS http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
