[Talk-us] OpenStreetMap Isn't All That Open, Let's Change That and Drop Share-Alike

[Richard Welty]

On 3/13/14 1:27 PM, Richard Weait wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 10:26 AM, Alex Barth <alex at mapbox.com> wrote:
>> Hello everyone -
>>
>> I've been sitting on writing about the detrimental effects of
>> OpenStreetMap's share-alike license (ODbL) for a while and finally decided
>> to, um, share. I've been listening long to many OpenStreetMappers I respect
>> a ton telling me it's not so bad and it's just what we're stuck with right
>> now.
> OpenStreetMap is not "stuck" with ODbL, the OpenStreetMap community
> selected it.  The OpenStreetMap community even helped to craft ODbL,
> with the Open Knowledge Foundation and OpenDataCommons.org, by
> participating in the discussions that went into drafting ODbL.
>
and moving to ODbL was a fairly massive and painful process.
the advantages of a license change would need to be fairly
substantial to make the pain involved worthwhile.

richard

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