[OSM-talk] about freedom in PD/BSD/MIT/Apache (was: The long tail - lowest common denominator)

[Immanuel Scholz]

Hi,


> do I assume the list posted earlier today seems about right? Imi, Nick H -
> you're probably the fiercest :) GNU-Free advocates on the list - does
> it seem not too offensive to you?

I do not agree to any non-viral license.

I stated my point several times before (and start to get tired of going
over this again and again...)

For a public domain (or BSD, Apache...) license, I feel like "just another
data source for some big company".
I have this picture of some manager in mind, looking at OSM and says to
his market-guy: "Hey, look at this. Cool, we can boot thoose cheap chinese
- these stupids doing it for free."

I know, that the data would be much more usable in some conditions (some
told examples about charity organisations or researchers) but every
additional user would be buyed by giving up some piece of freedom*).

Well, that's just how I feel about it. Most people don't care, as Steve
already said ;-).

Ciao, Imi


*) Why freedom? Because if a company with more capacity as OSM develop
applications based on the data, quickly almost nobody will use our crappy
tools anymore (because almost nobody cares). But without "almost" users,
the rest cannot live their freedom - they depend on the support of the
masses.
If you think this is far-fetched, I hope you are right. :-D