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

[SteveC]

On 25 Oct 2008, at 18:57, Joseph Gentle wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 7:08 AM, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> On 25 Oct 2008, at 11:56, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>>> What I don't like about share-alike is the small-minded attempt to
>>> codify this
>>> giving away into something legally binding. To me, this is deeply
>>> based
>>> in a negativist, paranoid world view where everyone is out to cheat
>>> you.
>>
>> ... which is sort of the basis for the free market
>
> The free market as well as all economics is based on the principle of
> limited resources. When you take my toy, I don't have a toy anymore.

and thus we fight for those resources.

> Data doesn't work like that. If you download my mapping data and use
> it, I still have my mapping data. Cool, huh?

Yup and that's why copyrights and so on were invented to make  
information behave like property.

> Currently, for a lot of use cases the proprietry google maps are less
> restrictive than our OSM. (Google maps let you make any mashup
> whatsoever under any license so long as you put it on the 'web for
> free.) If we want to be seen as the free, community map, we need to
> make our maps more free.

Let's pretend you're right... the notion that OSM is here just to make  
mashups easier for you is ludicrous, that's just one facet of opening  
up the data... which you can't do on GMaps.

Best

Steve