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
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
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
Nathan,
I'm 100% with you as regards PD; I also think that it would cause
much less hassle, make OSM a better project and be morally superior
along the way.
However there are many people who think differently, and you may
encounter some of them on legal-talk to which I'm CCing this, with
full
I really would like to see a license as simple as the following:
For data users -
0. Open Street Map collects and creates public domain map data.
1. Attribution of Open Street Map is expected. We make it easy.
2. Contributing back or freely sharing modifications is strongly
encouraged.
Frederik Ramm wrote:
That's my problem as well. We are not much better than other owners of
geodata. They say:
1. Geodata is very valuable and takes a lot of work to collect and
those who do all the work should be the owners of the data and
dictate under what rules it may be used;
2.