On Mon, Apr 11, 2011 at 08:14:28PM +0100, Joseph Reeves wrote: > 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.
When you can do more with the data than what them on one companys site people will probably start listening. IMHO the more open we will offer the data the more applications and usage types will spin off and people will be happy to contribute as their little cornercase of geolocation will suddenly print the correct results. "The more" means BSD or PD for me - its the same with linux. One day there only will be one global set of geodata and suddenly the whole protectionism some where proposing in 2008,9,10,11 seems like a silly little joke we all will hopefully laugh about. 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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