[OSM-legal-talk] OSMHQ (Open Street Map High Quality): Viable Alternative For The National Map Corps
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Thu Sep 4 12:27:19 BST 2008
Richard,
> Of course, Frederik, 99% of OSM edits are made with either your
> editor or mine.
Unfortunately Imi's a die-hard copyleft advocate... I think if he had
been aware of a license that forces anything made with JOSM to be
copyleft he'd probably have used that ;-)
In a way, the whole of civilisation is a derived work, isn't it? Glad
our forefathers were liberal enough to not try to attach too many
licensing strings to their cultural heritage, otherwise we'd probably
have a world not only divided culturally and geographically, but also
legally: "Sorry mate, can't talk to you about this, you are descended
from a GnuFreeThought tribe and I am BrainCommons, we're not compatible..."
(If you were so unlucky to produce offspring of two incompatible
licenses, you'd make sure it doesn't get published lest the license
police will come and annihilate it... it's a logical/legal no-no you know.)
Bye
Frederik
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