Ed, Ed Avis wrote:
Well, since there is a licence discussion anyway, how about it? What would Microsoft and others like to see from OSM's licence? It would be great to have some concrete preferences from the most important users.
1. Speak for yourself; the "most important users" for me are those for whom we open up entirely new possibilities. I'm glad to see big players join the band but they all had their map data before - whereas OSM has helped a lot of people acquire map data, and maps, who didn't have anything like it. Those I consider most important.
2. The license train has left the station. We've been at this for ages and there is no viable alternative. We will certainly not throw away years of deliberations just because a handful of US corporations asked us to (and imagine the outcry among mappers if we were to do that).
3. In case you want to go into any kind of detail about the license, legal-talk ist that way --->.
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