On Jul 18, 2010, at 9:49 PM, Anthony wrote: > On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:11 PM, SteveC <[email protected]> wrote: > The companies I talk to today come down in to two camps on PD. The first > basically lick their lips and want us to go PD so they don't have to > contribute anything (in effect make their business easier) and the second > think it would be nuts because then the project wouldn't have long term > growth potential and would probably die and fragment like BSD did etc etc etc. > > I'd count the second group as the brighter ones. > > That's interesting, because last time you commented on it, you said "it would > be much better to move OSM to PD or CC0 for CloudMade and all the other > companies". Glad to see you're being more honest about it.
Hi Of course it would be better - then CM and everyone else could do what they like without having to deal with emails like this one. There's nothing new or complicated here - it's very simple. The best thing for CloudMade would be to have complete and free access to the data. The best thing for OSM and the community as a whole, including commercial vendors like CM, is to have share-alike provisions which keep everyone contributing and honest. Just basic game theory. Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
