[OSM-legal-talk] Cloudmade

[Adrian]

> I'm sort of taking offence at your implied suggestion that there is one 
> group of people who "give" to the project and another group, among whom 
> you seem to count Cloudmade and would probably also count Geofabrik, of 
> people who "take" from the project to make a business.

I'm sorry to have given that impression. I very much appreciate the 
effort that Steve, Nick and everyone else has put into OSM, and I hope 
that they, and you, are successful in making a profit from that effort.

This thread came about because I misunderstood the CC-By-SA licence and 
because I perceived Cloudmade couldn't be bothered to address my concerns.

In the commercial world the data providers would take months pulling 
apart a reseller's business plan. I think the OSM contributors are due, 
morally if not legally, some of that respect.