<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 June 2010 09:44, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:g.gremmen@cetest.nl">g.gremmen@cetest.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Basically, we don't care really about attributes, licenses<br>
and the rest. We will not and cannot enforce our own<br>
license, so why should we discuss about it ?<br>
<br>
Users of our data that are honest will respect our<br>
work and attribute whatever we ask (if reasonable),<br>
Users that are not will ignore our license and get away with it!<br>
Or will you Sam, or Tom, pay the legal consequences of enforcing our license.<br>
<br>
Be realistic and stop spoiling efforts<br>
into discussion licenses and attributes.... until<br>
we can challenge the market ! And that will never happen, I hope!<br>
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Make OSM Public Domain and it will grow even faster.<br></blockquote></div><br>Hello,<br>Well, I am sure quite a few people care about the licence to the point of regularly wanting to enforce it. So I don't think your statement is quite right at all.<br>
I can't see how making OSM Public Domain (which is almost virtually impossible) would have absolutely no effect on people contributing more to OSM. I can even see a few cases where it might prevent people from contributing. You would just get potentially different kind of people but I don't think it would grow faster. People are contributing to Google Map Maker and yet they don't get anything back in return besides the ability to print a map. It shows that most people don't care that much about the licence: it is more about the ability to make use of a map that is accurate that matters in the end. <br>
The whole debate about public domain or copyleft is an old argument since we had GPL and BSD. I could use the fallacious argument of pointing out that copyleft projects seem to thrive way more than public domain (Wikipedia, Linux, ....). Please note that this is a troll so don't feel the urge to reply to this.<br>
<br>Emilie Laffray<br>