Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread Erik Johansson
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 1:26 AM, Frederik Ramm frede...@remote.org wrote: Tim, OSM is not essentially anything at its core. It is different things to different people. I'm talking about the sentence that defines OSM at the top of our Wiki page, which in all likelihood has been there in this

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread Frederik Ramm
Erik, Erik Johansson wrote: Obviously a lot of people think Openstreetmap is more than just a collection of coordinates in a db. I think you try to redefine it in a way that supports your PD argument. Firstly, I am not making a PD argument but an ODbL argument here. Secondly, I'm not

[OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread TimSC
Frederik Ramm wrote: / OSM is not essentially anything at its core. It is different things to // different people. / I'm talking about the sentence that defines OSM at the top of our Wiki page, which in all likelihood has been there in this form when most of us signed up. As if that

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Albertas Agejevas a...@pov.lt wrote: On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 09:50:50AM +0200, jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: 2010/4/22 Dirk-Lüder Kreie osm-l...@deelkar.net Am 22.04.2010 02:51, schrieb andrzej zaborowski: No other data gatherer in the world has

Re: [OSM-legal-talk] Viral can be nice

2010-04-22 Thread Rob Myers
On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 09:47:47 +0200, Erik Johansson erjo...@gmail.com wrote: If ODBL existed in the same variants as CC does, this would be easier. I support CC very strongly, but I don't recommend licence variants. They make things even more confusing and incompatible. OSM can be viewed as