On 6/10/2016 9:48 AM, Tom Lee wrote:
Protecting commercial interests by limiting reuse is generally not a
goal of open licenses*. If someone owns proprietary data and wants to
extract rents from it, they probably shouldn't contribute it to an
open data project like OSM.
* obviously there are exceptions -- CC-BY-NC exists, though it's
little-loved both in terms of adoption and its creating organization
-- but I think it would be a stretch to say the ODbL was designed for
this purpose
The ODbL is an open license. CC BY-NC, like all NC licenses, is not.
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