[OSM-talk] open data

[Wollschaf]

On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:35:32 +0100, Etienne wrote:

> CC-BY

Perhaps. Perhaps not.

I hate those licensing issues, though. Everybody makes perfectly valid
points and they just can't be combined.

What I want:

- OSM as source of the data has to be mentioned.

Private use:

- Everybody should be able to draw / view maps and plan routes without
paying for the data if the use is not commercial.

- Enhancements to the data should flow back to OSM if possible (license,
etc). Forcing somebody to do that is bad. I want everybody to be able to
make maps of their favourite edible mushroom collecting places for family
members, without having to publish those places to OSM.

- Derived maps should not be bound to bear the same license as OSM data.
Maps are artwork.

Is that CC-BY-NC? I don't know.

Commercial use:

- Commercial use of OSM data should be paid for to finance the ever
growing demand of server hardware. Local business displaying a map on
their webpage or people selling T-Shirts are usually not rich; They should
be easily able to afford buying OSM data. (10€ per map on
commercial webpage, 5% of profit for a t-shirt back to OSM?). Bigger
projects are out of my imagination. I want people to be able to earn money
with our free data, but I do not want that none of the profits flow back
to OSM. Resulting datasets / maps can be restricted in use, as
freedom of source data has been ensured by payment.

- Payments can also be done by delivering data to OSM. How much... I don't
know.


Some percentage of the money that flows back to OSM could be distributed
to the creators of the map data. As payments are bound to certain chunks
of data, that percentage could be split among those who edited in that
area. It's hard to prevent or filter meaningless edits, though. Selecting
thousands of segments and moving all 0.003 m in some direction
should not be paid for. ;)

Perhaps it would be the best choice to dual-license the data. One license
for commercial use and another for noncommercial use.

Somehow I want everything at once, and no licensing issues at all.

Wollschaf