[OSM-legal-talk] Making OSM Public domain
Nic Roets
nroets at gmail.com
Sun Oct 26 15:22:39 GMT 2008
With mapping data, you don't need to worry about DRM. As the world moves to
a net-based economy, commercial service providers will be able to restrict
you from viewing / downloading their maps whole sale.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
>
> I don't deny that incompatible licences can be a pain, but then so can
> DRM, proprietary work, and all the other stuff that copyleft licences
> protect against. On balance, the former is an annoyance, whereas the
> latter is something worse.
>
> - Rob.
>
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