Lets take this one step further, what if you just put all your data under the public domain and had no creative commons which was directly inspired from the free software foundations GPL? http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2009/lawrence-lessig/?searchterm=lessig
You would have no basis for contribution. How could you convince people to put all their data into the public domain? What would be the incentive? I think that the copyleft is more successful than the public domain as a license. I think that the creative commons is a great idea to glue the data together and to also protect it. What would happen to the osm data if it was all public domain? You would lose steam. Why did you even pick creative commons? Why is there such a disconnect here? I have seen anarchy at work, and it does not work well : in the balkans there is not copyright, just anarchy and "piracy", there is no respect of copyright law, and people live in the ghetto of stolen buggy virus infested software. I think that some type of protection for your ideas makes good sense and if you think about it, you will see that the foundation of all good things from OSM is built upon the principles of "free software" so you should give two shits about it. mike On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 8:54 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com>wrote: > On 12 March 2010 17:50, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > jamesmikedup...@googlemail.com wrote: > >> If all the code and all the tools we used were to be licensed costly > >> software, who would pay for OSM? > > > > We'd all use Google Map Maker then. Under Safari ;-) > > What about Mapzen under IE? *ducks* >
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