On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Joseph Gentle <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:josephg@gmail.com">josephg@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Simon Ward <<a href="mailto:simon@bleah.co.uk">simon@bleah.co.uk</a>> wrote:<br>
> On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:19:50PM +0100, Brian Quinion wrote:<br>
>> Personally I'd be very happy to see the discussion of PD continue on<br>
>> the talk list but a mailing list seems a very minor resource compared<br>
>> to the time and effort that have gone into the creating the new<br>
>> license.<br>
><br>
> I see the PD route as just giving up. "It's too hard" is not a good<br>
> answer for me. It's clear that my opinion isn't global though.<br>
<br>
</div>My motivation for being interested in this stems from an issue I had<br>
before the license was changed. I wanted to write an iphone<br>
application to help people catch public transport in my local area.<br>
The idea was that people could pull out their iphone, point on a map<br>
where they wanted to go and it would show them which bus stop to walk<br>
to, which busses to catch, how long it would take, etc.<br>
<br>
I intended to have an overlay on my map which showed bus stops. This<br>
data would be collected from the local bus company.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>The stronger OSM gets the more likely that the bus company will publish their data in a form that OSM, and you, could use.<br><br>IMHO, PD weakens OSM and weakens its ability to free up other datasets.<br>
<br>80n<br><br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
Under the old license, I couldn't use OSM because I couldn't share the<br>
overlay. It might not have been a problem - but I couldn't risk it.<br>
This got me wondering - what applications will never be written<br>
because of the OSM SA licensing?<br>
<br>
I think this problem has changed with the new license; but _any_<br>
share-alike license will have similar problems. I would love to see<br>
the same free mapping data used everywhere; by tourists, local<br>
councils, proprietary satnav systems, google earth, etc. I don't think<br>
this will ever happen with the OSM data because of the share-alike<br>
requirement. It would be similar to a linux license requiring you to<br>
also GPL any software you write on your computer.<br>
<br>
I know its not _that_ bad anymore, but I got idealistic.<br>
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-J<br>
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<br>
> Simon<br>
> --<br>
> A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a<br>
> simple system that works.—John Gall<br>
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