On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Peter Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> > My company (Ito World Ltd) needs to be able to combine Share-Alike data > from > OSM with copyright data from other sources ... IMHO "Other sources" are usually incompatible with SA. > > software and produce rendered images or conclusions that we can sell (and > not have to give away for free). Without an expectation that the new > licence > will allow this then ITO would not be participating in the project. For the PD, CC-SA and presumably the new license all allow this. > > avoidance of doubt I fully expect commercial users of the data to be > required to make their improvements to the OSM dataset itself back to the > community and we are trying to get a set of words together to ensure that > these distinctions are as clear as they can be in the licence (although > there will of course be grey areas on the boundaries, which is why the Use > Cases are so important). Mathematicians warn us against Use Cases. With PD, no Use Cases are needed and legal fees are less. I remind councils and other people interested in the project that there is > no reason why they can't pay people to work on OSM. There is some funny > idea > that because it is an open-source project and that the results are free > that > people have to do it in their spare time. This is clearly not the case with > Much more true than funny. What's also true is that they don't update OSM because they don't see any benefit. This will offcourse change if OSM becomes either * the dominant online map (like wikipedia being the dominant online encyclopedia) OR * an upstream source for other maps, which isn't very likely under SA.
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