[OSM-legal-talk] The "major contributions" argument
Jochen Topf
jochen at remote.org
Tue Jan 8 08:33:21 GMT 2008
I have tried to keep out of the legal discussion, but I can't any more.
Sorry for that :-)
One argument for keeping CC or go with another license that requires
attribution is that some of the (major?) contributions we have seem to
require that. We might loose MASSGIS or other imports.
This argument ist totally bogus. OpenStreetMap was founded with the
express purpose to get rid of license restrictions that other people
impose on us. From the beginning OSM said: Screw the others. If they
don't play by our rules, we do it ourselves. This is why many of us
signed up. Sure it is nice to import lots of data in one go, but, as
the coverage in many parts of Europe shows, it is absolutely not
necessary for the success of this project.
Jochen
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