[OSM-legal-talk] Deconstructing the "loss of data" claim

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

> AFAIK this whole 'lets get another license' is motived by a desire
> of some to make it easier for 3th parties to use our work, not for
> a desire to better protect the contributors.

Well I think the key problem with the current license is that we don't
adhere to it ourselves, and that it is quite unclear how the license
is to be applied in many cases. (Just one example of many: The derived
work vs. collected work question; we have the informal agreement
within the community that displaying OSM and non-OSM tiles in a
layered slippy map makes a collected work, not a derived work. But
that's not at all clear from the license. Insecurities like that keep
users away and serve to make us basically CC-BY-SA-NC as any
commercial entity with something to lose will shy away from using
OSM.)

As for "a desire of some to make it easier for 3th parties to use our 
work" - yes, sure, I've invested a hell of a lot of work and now I
want as many users as possible.

Bye
Frederik

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