[OSM-legal-talk] Re: [OSM-talk] about freedom in PD/BSD/MIT/Apache

[Lars Aronsson]

Thomas Walraet wrote:

> Share-Alike, aka copyleft, is not something made to forbid 
> commercial uses. ("viral" is not very pleasant)

Yes, this I know.  It was Imi who started to object to 
money-making, and I pointed out that money-making isn't forbidden 
by the viral (SA) component of the license.  Imi didn't stress the 
attribution (BY) component of the license, only the viral one.  

You, on the other hand, stress the attribution component.

But the viral component (with or without the requirement of 
attribution) primarily requires that any user of the derived work 
(or mash-up) should be granted the freedom to use the entire 
derived work on the same conditions (share alike) under which the 
source (OSM) data were released.  How do you build that into a 
Google Maps mash-up?  Or does the SA component mean we want to ban 
all mash-ups between OSM and Google Maps?  Should we chase 
17-year-old wanna-be hackers to court because they play around 
with AJAX and the Google API?


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