[OSM-legal-talk] Attempt to clarify

[Iván Sánchez Ortega]

El Miércoles, 20 de Febrero de 2008, Ian Sergeant escribió:
> There are so many business models for which you will be unpaid labour,
> under the proposed licence.
>
> * Someone who prints out OSM maps, [...]
> * A online real estate agent, using OSM maps for property locations.

No, you're not unpaid labor. A OSM contributor won't be doing their work.

They'll be basing their work on the work of the OSM contributors, which is a 
pretty different thing

> One could ask, just what do you have against a mapping company, that you 
> don't have against a real estate agent, or taxi driver?). 

The mapping company won't let me play with their toys; and the fastest way to 
build a new toy for me is to (try to) enforce share-alike.

(I'm starting to get the "it's GPL-vs-BSD all over again" feeling)

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Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez at escomposlinux.org>

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