[Talk-de] Hello from England

[Jochen Topf]

On Thu, Jul 02, 2009 at 12:57:10PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> On 2 Jul 2009, at 07:37, Jochen Topf wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jul 01, 2009 at 01:55:43PM +0100, SteveC wrote:
> >> The license is interesting, because if you think about it and I was
> >> evil then I would join the people who like the public domain. Because
> >> then it would be much easier for my company, and others, to do what
> >> they liked with the data and kill OSM. Instead we have taken the
> >> harder path because I think it is much better for the long term
> >> survival and health of the project to have a reciprocal license.
> >
> > A great! We are falling back into medieval language now. Public  
> > domain is evil.
> > Its not an option we can seriously discuss. Its evil and everbody  
> > who is for
> > public domain is evil. End of discussion. Glad we cleared that up.
> 
> As you know, I didn't say that.
> 
> > Weren't you trying to get more communication going?
> 
> Yeah and you just killed it, well done.

I am sorry. I might have been confused by emails from you such as these:
http://www.mail-archive.com/legal-talk@openstreetmap.org/msg00805.html
http://www.mail-archive.com/talk@openstreetmap.org/msg10052.html

Of course my logic was backwards and misrepresented what you were saying and I
apologize for that. So I'll try again: What you are saying is that if you were
evil you would be for PD, but as you are not evil you might still be for PD and
there might actually be valid reasons for beeing in favour of public domain and
we should discuss them on an equal footing with going with the ODBL?

Did I understand you correctly this time? If thats the case, I am glad we agree
on PD beeing an option.

Jochen
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