On 2012/02/13 20:54, Tobias Bieniek <tobias.bien...@gmx.de> wrote: > I just had a short mail conversation with Christian Hynek (the admin > of streckenflug.at). He basically told me that they will not make > their database available for the XCSoar users, or in general any > non-LX/Naviter users.
Of course a commercial vendor will not allow a free project to use its data due to conflict of interest. The commercial entity will want to protect its "killer feature", to be able to survive against XCSoar. Our answer should be: we build a new database, or we encourage people to contribute to an existing free project (if there is one already). The new free database should be free to use for non-commercial use. One of the Creative Commons licenses should be suited for this. XCSoar has many thousands of active users (~ 10,000 on Android alone). We should have much more manpower than all commercial vendors combined. We should consider this a big chance, because streckenflug.at's decision not to support us may be a very stupid decision for them: if they would allow us to access to their database, we would depend on their good will and licensing conditions forever. If we are forced to build a free database now, we will be independent in the long run. The XCSoar project has liberated the software market, the next logical step is to liberate databases. (Do photographers get paid by streckenflug.at when they assign their copyright to the company? Are they aware that the company makes money from their contributions?) Max ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try before you buy = See our experts in action! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-dev2 _______________________________________________ Xcsoar-user mailing list Xcsoar-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xcsoar-user
