On 3 July 2010 20:39, Oliver (skobbler) <[email protected]> wrote: > license. In essence I would like to understand who is intended to benefit > from a PD-license, mappers, consumers, developers, companies, data donors? I
Some data is being released in Australia from governments under cc-by licenses, and they would possibly benefit from OSM having a cc-by compatible license, I'm sure some other donors would be in the same boat. I think Sam has mentioned some Canadian government data is being released without any restrictions and they wouldn't be able to accept any data back unless there was no restrictions, so in this case a PD license would benefit donors. I think most declarations by end users are more moral than anything, in that most end users wouldn't stand to gain anything tangible directly regardless of what the license is. I doubt most consumers or developers would gain anything directly, usually they benefit from services but is it OSM's place to demand how the data should be used? NGOs might benefit from a more liberal license, simply because they may be able to build up their own from different sources, although those sources then might claim copyright due to being a derivative product. In my mind, the main beneficiary would be companies selling products or services and gaining a competitive advantage over their competition by not being required to share any changes they make. This in turn might be detrimental for consumers and developers because they may want to use the most consistent map source but not necessarily the best license or price for their users and so on. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
