[OSM-legal-talk] Requiring "free of charge" for db redistribution on Internet

[Rob Myers]

On Mon, Oct 27, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is it an intended side effect of the license to discourage
> internet-based distribution of derivative dbs?

I wouldn't have thought so. :-)

> My suggestion would be
> that recovering "reasonable production cost" should also be extended
> to "reasonable distribution cost" for internet distribution too.  My
> idea would be that the marginal cost (i.e. the bandwidth for the given
> download) is recoverable, but not e.g. man hours in setting up the
> download server.
>
> Any thoughts?

How much would it cost for bandwidth to serve a single copy of the
current OSM DB?

- Rob.