Gustav Foseid wrote: >> This could potentially alienate anyone who wonders why they are doing >> surveying for free so that cartographers can sell all-rights-reserved >> map images based on their data. > > It could, potentially, even if I agree with Richard. I think it is important > to explain why this change is to the better in the majority of the cases. > [...] > With the ODbL, the image of the map does not have to be free, but the data > have to be shared. This means that the design elements are proprietary, but > the data are easily available.
I agree. However, judging from some feedback on the German forums (where I have explained exactly this situation), it seems that some users are not going to accept the possibility of creating produced works under non-free licenses, pointing out that the added value might not even be because of a change to the data, but the (unpublished) tools creating the images, thus nothing of use would be contributed back to the "free world" with ODbL. I don't think explaining that data is more useful for us than images will help (I've already tried that), because that won't stop them from demanding both. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
