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

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Tue Sep 28 21:28:48 BST 2010


On Sep 28, 2010, at 1:47 PM, Dave F. wrote:

> 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.

Meanwhile, back in Reality...

The OSMF made no such demands, didn't turn it's back, and in fact has a healthy and friendly relationship with many people at the OS.

In fact, I even helped the OS with the first version of OpenSpace.

You paranoid guys really keep pushing the bounds of crazy to come up with these conspiracy theories.

Steve

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