[OSM-legal-talk] Contact Info For Tom Hughes Regarding Public Domain Mailing List

[80n]

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 1:17 AM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:55 AM, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 08:19:50PM +0100, Brian Quinion wrote:
> >> Personally I'd be very happy to see the discussion of PD continue on
> >> the talk list but a mailing list seems a very minor resource compared
> >> to the time and effort that have gone into the creating the new
> >> license.
> >
> > I see the PD route as just giving up.  "It's too hard" is not a good
> > answer for me.  It's clear that my opinion isn't global though.
>
> My motivation for being interested in this stems from an issue I had
> before the license was changed. I wanted to write an iphone
> application to help people catch public transport in my local area.
> The idea was that people could pull out their iphone, point on a map
> where they wanted to go and it would show them which bus stop to walk
> to, which busses to catch, how long it would take, etc.
>
> I intended to have an overlay on my map which showed bus stops. This
> data would be collected from the local bus company.
>

The stronger OSM gets the more likely that the bus company will publish
their data in a form that OSM, and you, could use.

IMHO, PD weakens OSM and weakens its ability to free up other datasets.

80n



>
> Under the old license, I couldn't use OSM because I couldn't share the
> overlay. It might not have been a problem - but I couldn't risk it.
> This got me wondering - what applications will never be written
> because of the OSM SA licensing?
>
> I think this problem has changed with the new license; but _any_
> share-alike license will have similar problems. I would love to see
> the same free mapping data used everywhere; by tourists, local
> councils, proprietary satnav systems, google earth, etc. I don't think
> this will ever happen with the OSM data because of the share-alike
> requirement. It would be similar to a linux license requiring you to
> also GPL any software you write on your computer.
>
> I know its not _that_ bad anymore, but I got idealistic.
>
> -J
>
>
> > Simon
> > --
> > A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a
> > simple system that works.—John Gall
>
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