[OSM-legal-talk] Privacy and Terms
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Tue Jul 7 07:43:33 BST 2009
Matt,
Matt Amos wrote:
> it's been said before, but it bears repeating: why bother? all the
> time wasted arguing about whether copying information from copyrighted
> maps is OK would be better used mapping, writing code or one of the
> other thousands of productive tasks out there in the OSM community.
Well, a good deal of those people who argue *against* copying from
existing maps do so partly because they believe (hope, want, pray) that
it is forbidden to copy from *our* maps without adhering to *our*
license, not because they really want to copy from someone else.
If it can be shown that we can copy from other maps with impunity, then
we can bin the whole re-licensing effort and go PD right away.
Bye
Frederik
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