[OSM-legal-talk] The big license debate

[Lars Aronsson]

Frederik Ramm wrote:

Hope you don't mind that I take this back on list.  I have no 
interest in a personal dialog.

> I utterly fail to see what's "great" or even "the whole point" about somebody
> *not* producing an atlas from our data.

The atlas you want to produce is a non-free one.  It doesn't 
contribute to the domain of freedom that OSM wants to expand.  
People who would purchase it, cannot modify or redistribute it. 
Therefore, we don't feel sorry that it wasn't produced.

> This is not a choice between a copyrighted atlas and a free 
> atlas, but a choice between a copyrighted atlas and no atlas.

Last time I looked, there was no shortage of copyrighted atlases.
In fact, the printed ones are now very affordable.


> On a side note - say there was a node in OSM data that was created by Alice
> based on GPS tracks uploaded by Bob, later joined to form a segment by Carol
> (and so on) - whose permission is required to make that node or segment PD?

I'll leave that question to you.  I personally wouldn't go in that 
direction.

> What if Carol moved the node slightly so that Alice's contribution was fully
> overwritten... I am sure this must have been discussed a lot of times in
> Wikipedia context?

No, it is very rare that anybody wants to move Wikipedia articles 
to the public domain.  People either comply with GFDL or leave.
Have you been following Wikipedia's mailing lists?



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