Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Have there been many projects/companies which improved TIGER and released the results as PD? None that I know of; I suppose they have all spent a lot of money to be able to process and improve TIGER and they probably want to recoup that investment through proprietary licensing. Is it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-13 Thread Christopher Schmidt
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 10:03:20PM +0100, Gervase Markham wrote: Frederik Ramm wrote: None that I know of; I suppose they have all spent a lot of money to be able to process and improve TIGER and they probably want to recoup that investment through proprietary licensing. Is it

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Users whose contributions are in the public domain

2008-05-13 Thread Frederik Ramm
Hi, Is it relevant to us? Surely it's highly relevant to your assertion that we would build a strong community around OSM if it was PD? I thought OJW was not talking about communities but about corporations. Which generally have a bad track record of working for free (perhaps because they