[OSM-talk] About my stubbornness

[Tommy Persson]

Nick Whitelegg <nick at hogweed.org> writes:

> > > Everything that is GPL'd should be accessible at all times, i.e public
> > > GPX tracks and the OSM data. Which it is. It is simply not necessary to
> > > publish the complete database. It should be possible to fork a project on
> > > the base of OSM, which it is, IMHO.
> >
> > Is it really?  Do you mean planet-files?
> >
> > So if you take the data available how do you remove copyrighted
> > information from it if you realize that one user have added it?
> 
> I wouldn't say that planet.osm based projects are "forks" as they don't 
> encourage people to put surveyed data into some place other than OSM, but... 
> Since planet.osm is released on a regular basis, and likely to become more 
> regular, one could just replace the contaminated planet.osm with the next 
> one.

Not if there is no next one.  The worry I have seen from people is
that they are not sure that there investment in time is protected if
the project just die due to lack of inteterest from the few people
with control over the data and the database is not released.  It might
be possible to restart something with what is available but its is not
a fork.


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/Tommy Persson