On 3/13/14 1:27 PM, Richard Weait wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth <a...@mapbox.com> wrote: >> Hello everyone - >> >> I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of >> OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided >> to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect >> a ton telling me it's not so bad and it's just what we're stuck with right >> now. > OpenStreetMap is not "stuck" with ODbL, the OpenStreetMap community > selected it. The OpenStreetMap community even helped to craft ODbL, > with the Open Knowledge Foundation and OpenDataCommons.org, by > participating in the discussions that went into drafting ODbL. > and moving to ODbL was a fairly massive and painful process. the advantages of a license change would need to be fairly substantial to make the pain involved worthwhile.
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