[OSM-legal-talk] New license for business: meh

[Robert Kaiser]

Frederik Ramm schrieb:
> And as for me being a "key player" - I am writing a lot on the lists, I
> am mapping a bit, I have written some software, and I am on the data
> working group.

Actually, the good thing of making in some way a job out of your hobby 
enables you to do that. And for me, as just some community member, the 
mere fact that you can make a job out of this hobby convinces me that 
it's a good thing. Not because people like you can earn money with it, 
but because it shows that this shows that what we are doing is really 
usable in the real world and not just some figment of our imagination.

It doesn't make me nervous to have people like you around, it actually 
calms me down and ensures me of this being a useful project we are all 
helping with.

But then, maybe I'm tainted because I've been living in the open source 
world for some years now and know how it really works - as a good 
collaboration between volunteers, business people and those volunteers 
who can convert it into making a living out of it. :)

Robert Kaiser