[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] NearMap Community Licence and OSM Contributor Terms

[SteveC]

On Aug 19, 2010, at 3:24 PM, Nic Roets wrote:

> Steve,
> 
> I'm trying to be on your side.
> 
> But as chairman of the OSMF board, you really need to pick your words better. By saying "which every rational person I know thinks is the best step forward - the ODbL", you are implying that a lot of people are irrational.

Are you suggesting all the legal threads have been rational?

> I see that your company recently raised $12m, and I deduce that your goal is to make money. And that will be harder if NT and TA can use our data.

They can use the data the same as anyone can. My believe in share alike long predates CloudMade and OpenStreetMap.

Steve

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