Of course, its not about the license at all - if you appeal to fans of licenses you'll attract nobody. Google will take potential users by providing an awesome end product; the sort if thing everyone can appreciate. Make some awesome mapping products and you'll attract plenty of contributors and you'll be able to leave licensing talk to the nerds, presumably just as Google plans.
Cheers, Joseph On 11 Apr 2011 20:07, "Florian Lohoff" <f...@zz.de> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 10:41:42AM -0500, Ian Dees wrote: >> When Google turns Google MapMaker on in the US and Europe*, it will become >> much harder to recruit new mappers to our community (that is already quite >> small). Being passive about this issue means that OSM and its more-open data >> will eventually be drowned out by Google's much greater marketing might. >> >> -Ian >> >> * At Google's MapMaker User's summit last week someone said that this would >> happen (at least in the US) "soon". > > Its all about freedom - and teaching the people about it. > > The stricter our new license is, the less difference people will be able > to see when telling them. > > This is why i am proposing BSD all the time - its the biggest difference > one can get from anything all others do. No restrictions - period. > > Flo > -- > Florian Lohoff f...@zz.de > „Für eine ausgewogene Energiepolitik über das Jahr 2020 hinaus ist die > Nutzung von Atomenergie eine Brückentechnologie und unverzichtbar. Ein > Ausstieg in zehn Jahren, wie noch unter der rot-grünen Regierung > beschlossen, kommt für die nationale Energieversorgung zu abrupt.“ > Angela Merkel CDU 30.8.2009
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