[OSM-legal-talk] The big license debate

[SteveC]

Frederik Ramm wrote:
> I utterly fail to see what's "great" or even "the whole point" about
> somebody *not* producing an atlas from our data. Because that's what
> will happen - the production of the atlas is keyed to the chance of
> making money, or at least reclaiming expenses, and if that chance is
> denied by the license, then the creative act *will* *not* *happen*. This
> is not a choice between a copyrighted atlas and a free atlas, but a
> choice between a copyrighted atlas and no atlas.

Just because _you_ don't want to set up a company selling atlases with 
free data, doesn't mean that nobody does.

have fun,

SteveC steve at asklater.com http://www.asklater.com/steve/