[OSM-legal-talk] Best license for future tiles?

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Mon Nov 22 19:34:53 GMT 2010


Hi,

Kevin Peat wrote:
> Are there any concrete examples of share-alike actually benefitting 
> OSM?  It seems like a good thing for software projects but for OSM I 
> don't really see the benefit.

One of the "benefits" massively touted by some Australian project 
members (but also, less loudly, by others e.g. years ago Chris Schmidt 
with his MassGIS import) is that there's more data we can import if we 
use a license that those who own the data agree with.

Bye
Frederik

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