On 03/21/2011 06:31 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Effectively policing *any* license would very likely require a
*multiple* of OSMF's whole current budget.
The FSF has one paid compliance officer to look after the whole of GNU
and any other cases that they get involved in.
gpl-violations.org is all volunteers.
For the projects I've spoken to, enforcement is usually a phone call,
not a court case.
Do you want to stand before
mappers and tell them "for every pound we spend for servers to make
mapping a nicer experience, we spend five pounds to seek out and punish
license violators"?
It's not just about the experience on OSM's servers, it's about the
experience wherever the data is encountered.
I think both competent volunteers and any paid roles that take less than
${ARBITRARY_AMOUNT} of the budget are good investments in keeping the O
in OSM.
- Rob.
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