[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture

[Richard Fairhurst]

Quoting SteveC <steve at asklater.com>:

> No, but we _do_ need to find a way to pay for computers. Any ideas?

Two thoughts:

1. Real saleable product produced using OSM, rather than the core data itself.
For the UK, there are two that spring to mind: an equivalent to OS Miniscale
(http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/products/miniscale/) and a Central
London streetmap.

Ship them on CD in mass-market formats (e.g. JPEG and Illustrator). 
Ideally, get
a deal for a distributor to do this for us.

The catch: to be useful, this would probably need us to retreat from pure
ShareAlike. My understanding of what ShareAlike means to us is this: 
"if you're
using OSM geodata together with another dataset, that dataset needs to 
be free".
That's not a problem here.

But CC-SA, as it stands, could be read as "if you're producing a custom 
artistic
product using OSM geodata and nothing else, that product also has to be free".
That pretty much puts paid to supporting OSM this way.

It all hinges on what "derivative work" means. Lars - you're the one with the
strongest opinions on this. Would you have a problem with ShareAlike that
allowed non-shared products, while still requiring _geodata_ to be contributed
back to OSM?

2. Relicence OSM as "free for non-commercial use only for organisations with
under €xx,xxx of mapping-related turnover". In other words, everyone gets to
use OSM data for free except the big guys (whether they be TeleAtlas, Navteq,
OS, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, whoever), who have to negotiate with us to fund
the project.

cheers
Richard