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

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Mon Oct 27 12:35:56 GMT 2008


Hi,

Andy Allan wrote:
> OSM data is large and growing
> quickly, and bandwidth isn't free, certainly not at this scale.

Good point, should be fixed.

I guess the phrase came in because people had in mind the sometimes 
frivolous use of freedom-of-information-act liberty to charge for the 
information gathered which in some countries seems to keep people from 
making use of their rights.

Bye
Frederik

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