[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[Ed Avis]

Rob Myers <rob at ...> writes:

>I'm coming to the conclusion that "individual contributor of original 
>data to OSM" and "institutional importer of a third party database" 
>should be treated differently,

Perhaps... but who gets the power to decide which is which?  You start to
introduce political decisions into the process, with all the accompanying
disadvantages.

I think there is a lot to be said for giving every user, and every contributor,
exactly the same rights to use or contribute to the project under exactly the
same terms, without special privileges for any particular group or organization.

-- 
Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>