<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:10pt"><font face="Arial" size="2"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> De :</span></b> Alex Barth <alex@mapbox.com><br> </font><br><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font>Hello everyone -</div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font>I've
been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of
OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally
decided to, um, share. I've been listening long to many
OpenStreetMappers I respect a ton telling me it's not so bad and it's
just what we're stuck with right now. But given how bad share alike is
for OpenStreetMap I don't think we should give up for pushing for a more
open license. Here's why I think share-alike hurts OpenStreetMap and
how this keeps OpenStreetMap from having the full impact it could have:</div>
<div><br><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>></span></b></font><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221">http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/lxbarth/diary/21221</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><span style="font-weight:bold;">>>>> </span></b></font>Looking forward to your comments,</div><br><br>Hi Alex,<br><br>I disagree with you. Personnaly I contribute to OSM because of the share alike licence.<br>To take you example about Google using OSM data that will increase the community I`m not convinced at all.<br>I think that people would not realize that OSM is behind that and they will only join Google Community to contribute to Google Map data. Without a share alike licence these data will certainly remain in Google DB and not be contributed to OSM one because I wonder what would be the interest of Google to share the data
with its competitor whereas it doesn`t do that today. So at the end Google would benefit of OSM data but OSM will not benefit from this usage in my opinion.<br>OSM continue to grow so I don`t see any reason to fallback in a painfull licence change process that will mostly benefit to "consumers" and not to the project itself.<br>This is an endless philosophical debat like the GPL vs BSD in software and I don`t think there is a best solution for everyone.<br><br>My 2 cents<br>Julien<br><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 13.3333px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"></div><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue,
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