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    On 6/10/2016 9:48 AM, Tom Lee wrote:<br>
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      <div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Protecting
          commercial interests by limiting reuse is generally not a goal
          of open licenses*. If someone owns proprietary data and wants
          to extract rents from it, they probably shouldn't contribute
          it to an open data project like OSM.</span></div>
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      <div class="gmail_extra"><span style="font-size:12.8px">*
          obviously there are exceptions -- CC-BY-NC exists, though it's
          little-loved both in terms of adoption and its creating
          organization -- but I think it would be a stretch to say the
          ODbL was designed for this purpose</span></div>
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    The ODbL is an open license. CC BY-NC, like all NC licenses, is not.<br>
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