[OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain

Joseph Gentle josephg at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 01:42:17 BST 2008


On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Joseph Gentle <josephg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 12:10 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> <lots of sensible and interesting discussion>
>> Frederik
>
>
> I agree with all of this. I don't want to confuse the issues; but I do
> want more data about the opinions of average mappers than an argument
> on the internet can provide.
>
> I am unfortunately frustrated with the foundation. To be able to say
> that OSM will never go PD, there must be data.
>
> If a poll were given to the community, I think it should look like this:
>
>
> Some people have different ideas of what 'free' should mean for our maps.
>
> Do you prefer that we:
> (o)  Place no restrictions on the use of the map data [link to PD stuff]
> (o)  Force anyone using maps based on OpenStreetMaps to share their
> improvements back to the community [link to SA stuff]
(o) I really don't care that much. I'm just here to make maps!
>
> [x]  I believe so strongly about this that I would contribute less to
> the project based on what model of freedom it supports
>
> Further discussion of the pros and cons of each of these models can be
> found here [link].
>
>
> I don't want to confuse this with the cc-by-sa -> odbl license change.
> But, its hard for any of us to make decisions on the community's
> behalf without finding out what the community thinks. I agree
> completely with Liz - I think most people don't care what the license
> is; just that we pick one. Steve - it is for that reason that I don't
> want to duplicate effort maintaining two maps. Much better to have it
> all under one united roof.
>
> -J
>




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