On 24 June 2011 02:36, Eugene Alvin Villar <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Those points aside, the license is usually fixed, some people who volunteer their free time, only do so based on a specific license, or similar. Some people prefer GPL some prefer BSD, but the 2 usually don't mix well because they have different ideals or goals. > 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. I didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong with them, however I don't usually like volunteering for large multinationals. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
