[Osmf-talk] OSM fair use examples

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

Personal or not, I did not get an

answer on my question

of how are we going to enforce the license.

 

Anyone thought of that ?

 

My last word on this:

 

This license stuff is keeping

a whole lot of people

from mapping, therefore my

opinion on growing faster...

 

Gert Gremmen

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Van: Emilie Laffray [mailto:emilie.laffray at gmail.com] 
Verzonden: Monday, June 28, 2010 1:19 PM
Aan: ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
CC: Tom Hughes; Sam Vekemans; osmf-talk at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [Osmf-talk] OSM fair use examples

 

 

On 28 June 2010 09:44, ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen
<g.gremmen at cetest.nl> wrote:

Basically, we don't care really about attributes, licenses
and the rest. We will not and cannot enforce our own
license, so why should we discuss about it ?

Users of our data that are honest will respect our
work and attribute whatever we ask (if reasonable),
Users that are not will ignore our license and get away with it!
Or will you Sam, or Tom, pay the legal consequences of enforcing our
license.

Be realistic and stop spoiling efforts
into discussion licenses and attributes.... until
we can challenge the market ! And that will never happen, I hope!

Make OSM Public Domain and it will grow even faster.


Hello,
Well, I am sure quite a few people care about the licence to the point
of regularly wanting to enforce it. So I don't think your statement is
quite right at all.
I can't see how making OSM Public Domain (which is almost virtually
impossible) would have absolutely no effect on people contributing more
to OSM. I can even see a few cases where it might prevent people from
contributing. You would just get potentially different kind of people
but I don't think it would grow faster. People are contributing to
Google Map Maker and yet they don't get anything back in return besides
the ability to print a map. It shows that most people don't care that
much about the licence: it is more about the ability to make use of a
map that is accurate that matters in the end. 
The whole debate about public domain or copyleft is an old argument
since we had GPL and BSD. I could use the fallacious argument of
pointing out that copyleft projects seem to thrive way more than public
domain (Wikipedia, Linux, ....). Please note that this is a troll so
don't feel the urge to reply to this.

Emilie Laffray

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