On 24 March 2011 06:00, Richard Weait <rich...@weait.com> wrote: > ODbL gives us the real share-alike, open data license that we wish we > had available to us when the project started.
Who cares about share-alike? The fact of the matter is that it's impossible for anyone to steal, fork, clone, borrow, or in any other way take a copy of OSM without losing the value of OSM -- it's community. You either join the community and participate along with everyone else, or else you FAIL. If someone chooses to FAIL, it's no skin of my back. I'm going to keep on mapping regardless of what someone does or attempts to do with the OSM data. Think, for a moment, what it would mean for someone to be able to make money off OSM data. They would have to provide GREATER value than free. How are they going to do that?? PAY people to use OSM? Relicensing is hurting the community -- and THAT is the true value of OSM. We can win the licensing battle -- but only by killing the community. Sheesh, where's FakeSteveC when you REALLY need mockery of stupid ideas?? -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
