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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Am 16.12.2013 00:27, schrieb
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:nicholas.g.lawrence@tmr.qld.gov.au">nicholas.g.lawrence@tmr.qld.gov.au</a>:<br>
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<p><font size="2">> I did not see this linked on this list, so
here you go:<br>
> <br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-">http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/15/magazine/googles-plan-for-global-</a><br>
> domination-dont-ask-why-ask-where.html?_r=0</font><br>
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<font size="2">page 6 of 8, second paragraph</font><br>
<font size="2">"The O.S.M. map data is free now -</font><br>
<font size="2">but using it comes with a catch. Any</font><br>
<font size="2">improvement, or any change at all,</font><br>
<font size="2">that a developer makes to O.S.M.'s</font><br>
<font size="2">map must be sent back to O.S.M."</font><br>
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<font size="2">Is this an accurate description of OSM's
licensing?</font><br>
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<font size="2">Well no (assuming the author is actually referring to
OSM data and not the map tiles) .<br>
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</font><font size="2"><font size="2">The ODbL does have fairly
strong share alike provisions and likely there are some business
models that wont work well with OSM. </font>However even if
all the share alike provisions are activated (you've created a
derivative database and have publicly used it), you simply have to
make your derivative database available (with ODbL 1.0 licensing).
You definitely don't have to send us a copy, frankly we wouldn't
know what to do with such data if we got it :-)<tt>. </tt></font><font
size="2">Non-public</font><font size="2">/internal use does not
trigger share alike in the first place. <br>
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Simon<br>
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