On 12/05/10 16:23, Jochen Topf wrote: > This puts the OSMF in a unique position to undermine the whole project. If > somebody subverts the OSMF, he can do whatever he wants with the data. I don't > think its a good idea to expose the OSMF to even the possibility of that > happening. The whole point of the license is to give *nobody* a way to make > the once open data not open anymore. With the IMDB and the CDDB we have two > examples where this exact thing went bad. Not somebody coming from the outside > taking the data and making it proprietary, but somebody from the inside.
Did you read the next paragraph which constrains what they can do with it? Yes, it is a bit weird to say "we'll have everything" and then in the next paragraph "but we'll only do this with it". Tom -- Tom Hughes (t...@compton.nu) http://compton.nu/ _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
