[talk-au] license change map

[Brendan Morley]

On 21/11/2010 12:18 PM, Andrew Laughton wrote:
> In my opinion OSM will never recover to the same point that it is at 
> today if data is removed for the simple reason that most, if not all 
> government data will need to be removed, 
Why would government data need to be removed?  Australian government 
geodata, for example, is definitely migrating to CC BY (no SA).  Last I 
looked this is compatible with CC BY-SA and (in spirit) ODbL.

> It is a bit like BSD and Linux.  Not many people are even aware that 
> Apple use BSD as their foundation, while Linux, Apple and anyone else 
> can use any part of BSD, BSD is by itself.  Linux started long after 
> BSD, yet it is very much stronger because of its license.
This result won't necessarily translate to geodata.  Software is subject 
to patents, rightly or wrongly.  In contrast, the collection methods for 
geodata are pretty much all covered by "prior art".

Also, would you argue that Apple has a more polished product than 
anything in the Linux family?


Brendan