On Dec 8, 2009, at 12:17 PM, Stefan de Konink wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > SteveC schreef: >>> SteveC schreef: >>>> So I can't license data because it's factual? >>> You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license >>> for what you couldn't /copyright/ in the first place is not an >>> analogy of GPL vs BSD. >> >> Why not? It's incredibly similar. You're on the BSD side, morally. >> I'm on the GPL side. > > Anyone that traces their trails might think this action is creative. If > that was as creative as writing a computer program or an algorithm[1] > that did this for you... then one probably understand that one is not > making a Rembrandt.
Don't run away from the point. Stop switching between your legal and moral arguments. I know all about the legal side. Well done. The point is that *morally* you want the data to be PD and *morally* I want it to be SA. The legal points you make are just supporting cases that you're cherry picking to help you. > [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgenerator > >>>> Anyway, back on planet Earth, there are lots of people who do >>>> want OSM to be virally licensed. You guys reiterating the great >>>> BSDvGPL holy war with pseudo legal arguments isn't going to >>>> change that. >>> The amount of people wanting to go PD with their data is probably >>> the inverse to the amount of people to want to keep viral. >> >> Sigh. Based on what? Based on that crappy poll? You have to be >> kidding. The universe doesn't only consist only of PD people on this >> list you know. There's a ton of people who are pro-SA and they tend >> to be the more rational ones who can't be bothered with yet another >> dumb poll or to comment back whenever someone brings up some >> pseudo-legal argument based on their 'university of life' education. > > The OSM universe doesn't end at the OSMF members either. So I wonder > what you are trying to prove here with /your/ vote. Statistical relevance? Mine? It's the LWGs. Asking the membership is a very credible thing to do - ask those who care enough to be a member. They're the ones the OSMF represents. Yours &c. Steve _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk