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

[Dave F.]

  On 28/09/2010 20:27, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dave F. wrote:
>>> When you joined OSM, was OS Streetview tracing already available 
>>> then? Becasue you make it sound as if OSM without OS Streetview 
>>> wasn't worth your time
>>
>> No I have not & you know that.
>>
>> Most of my posts have been questions which I notice you've been 
>> unable to answer.
>
> The post which I replied to did not contain a single question,
>
> Your general question was whether OS data is interoperable with 
> OdbL+CT (you asked whether somebody could "confirm" or "deny" that); 
> in further posts you made it clear that you would find it "sad" and 
> "hard to conceive" if it were not so.

And how did you correlate that with it not being worth my time?!

>
> I cannot confirm or deny your original question; but I wanted to say 
> that it is in no way "sad" or "hard to conceive" if the license that 
> OSM chooses is not compatible with a handful of government data 
> licenses around the world. We are certainly not going to let the OS 
> dictate the license we choose for our data.

It's amazing how you try & shift the guilt/blame.

 From where I'm standing it looks like the OSM Foundation is doing all 
the dictating.

They went to the OS & demanded they release their data. When they did, 
OSMF almost immediately turn back to them & say "oh we don't want it 
now". That's what I'm finding hard to conceive.

Dave F.