[Openstreetmap] The bigger picture

[Tom Carden]

On 2/14/06, Immanuel Scholz <immanuel.scholz at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> The original discussion was about changing the license for OSM. If any
> contributor does not accept a license change (as example you and me) the
> license change is rejected. Simple that. :)
>

Not necessarily ;)  One alternative would be to reject the
contributions of the person who objects, rather than to reject the
license they object to.  But I don't think that's what we're talking
about.

>
> I am very confident, that if the current OSM server would only allow some
> commercial access, an other server mirror with free access would be set up
> in no time ;-)
>

But what if the commercial access I'm talking about is to *services*
and *features* independent of the data?  Like a proprietary piece of
code which produces nicely formatted maps, for example?  The data can
go elsewhere, you're right, but that's not what I'm talking about.

Tom.