On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:49 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Every open source project I can think of has a fixed set of principals > by which the code will be licensed under, and the license defines the > sort of people that will join and help out, those requiring you to > sign your rights away are usually typical of commercial projects, not > open source ones.
1. Signing your rights away is not necessarily a bad thing. (The FSF asks you to do exactly that when contributing to GNU software projects, for good reasons, though others may rightfully disagree.) 2. Anyway, the OSM CT does not require you to sign away your rights. You just give OSMF a very broad license grant, just like what the Apache Software Foundation asks of its contributors. 3. Commercial projects are not necessarily bad things either. Comparing OSMF to a commercial entity (but the comparison is not correct, see #2 above) like it's a bad thing doesn't make sense. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
