Frederik Ramm wrote: > Just because user X does something propietary with OSM data doesn't mean > that he is less of a nice guy. However (on the other hand) just because > he is a nice guy doesn't mean that something proprietary he produces > should be treated as if it was part of the family.
But what's "the family"? People have written open-source OSM apps for closed platforms (Windows, OS X) and runtimes (Flash Player and formerly Java). Others spend time reverse-engineering closed formats (.img) for closed hardware (Garmin). I suspect the site JS has some hacks to make it render properly on (the closed-source) Internet Explorer. You could argue, and there are some reading this list who do, that these are therefore non-free and shouldn't be included in the OSM family. OSM's raison-d'etre is free geodata. Nothing else. If we start getting doctrinal about how we think people should interact with the data, I think OSM, as a project, becomes more insular and less viable. cheers Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk