[OSM-legal-talk] The big license debate

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> I'd like to know in advance that any contribution I make isn't going to 
> be appropriated by a commercial entity. I have no issues whatsoever with 
> commercial entities using the data for commercial gain but I do object 
> strongly to that being the _only_ way they offer the data. In my view 
> part of the "price" to the commercial entity for using the data is to 
> share the burden hosting it.

This is an interesting new take on the "share-alike" theme. Unlike the 
SA advocates I heard until now, you are not saying that the commercial 
entity should share things it makes from OSM data, but you say it should 
share the very OSM data it made things of. I never thought of that 
because I thought that OSM data would trivially be available and no 
external entity required to host it, but there may be a point to it.

Bye
Frederik

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