On 05/01/10 19:24, 80n wrote: > It may suit you, as a consumer of OSM data, to not give a damn about > contributing back to the project, but that's not what OSM is about. > Yes, any copyleft/share-alike licence *enables* this. But I think the discussion here (and I've been guilty of this myself in the past) has sometimes concentrated on this contributing back to the project rather than spreading/ensuring freedom for people to use the resources.
I do think that OSM is culturally in no small part about this giving back, and that having changed licences once it's important that OSM be able to change/upgrade/whatever the licence in the future. And a foundation isn't a corporation, so "copyright assignment" and its cognates shouldn't be a cause for panic. But I do think it's important to be clear about why this is and what it is for - to ensure the ongoing ability to use the data/maps, not to create power relations for their own sake or for the sake of those controlling them. - Rob. _______________________________________________ legal-talk mailing list legal-t...@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/legal-talk
