[OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

[SteveC]

I think most of your questions have been answered by other people  
already.

I could tell you about our plans for ice cream gloves but I think this  
does it better:

	http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nkuOuxRD1Bc

Best

Steve


On 3 Oct 2008, at 12:03, Adrian wrote:
> Hopefully someone here can explain this for me. Cloudmade have  
> received
> a large amount of venture capital funding for their OSM based  
> projects.
>
> Public details are a little vague on Cloudmade's plans, and they  
> haven't
> responded to my request for information, so this is a little bit
> guesswork, but they seem to be intending to make OSM toolkits and
> derived data products.
>
> The legal FAQ says that derived data products (that are distributed)
> must be made available under the terms of the licence - I interpret  
> that
> to mean for free, am I badly wrong?
>
> That discounts a revenue stream from derived data products.
>
> Similarly anyone using Cloudmade's toolkits to make derived products  
> and
> then distributing them, even if it's just a paper map, would have to
> distribute the derived product for free too, so there doesn't seem  
> much
> of a market for the tools.
>
> Against that background I look at the OSM Foundation members and the
> Cloudmade founders and start to feel a little nervous that the same
> people that are driving licence change and have access to the database
> that the rest of us contributors don't are somehow trying to make  
> money
> from OSM.
>
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