Peter Körner wrote: > Valent Turkovic wrote: >> On Thu, 14 Oct 2010 20:41:30 -0400, Anthony wrote: >>> Once OSM goes ODbL, I'd expect that Mapquest will stop licensing their >>> tiles under a free license. >> They distribute it now for free? Why? > They are forced to by the CC-BY-SA License.
...is evidently not the reason why they distribute tiles under a open licence. http://github.com/MapQuest/MapQuest-Mapnik-Style is MIT-licensed. That is more permissive than required by CC-BY-SA (of course, CC-BY-SA doesn't actually require they distribute the stylesheet at all). MapQuest aren't distributing the tiles and stylesheet under an open licence because they have to; they're doing so because they want to. Still, never let the facts get in the way of a good conspiracy theory, etc. Richard -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/Response-to-A-critique-of-OpenStreetMap-tp5635020p5639067.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk