[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[Barnett, Phillip]

This is ludicrous - I've got a national TV station interested in using
imagery from OSM, great publicity, and it turns out not to be possible.
I've been mapping for 10 months because I thought my efforts might
actually be USEFUL to people....

Please, why can't we pay a lawyer to come up with a license? How many
people are signed up, 3000 by August, presumably more now? One-off
contribution of GBP 5 each and voila, several lawyers who can clarify
this whole mess.

Will anybody else edit out that sentence on the front page, or shall I?


Phillip


 
 



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-----Original Message-----

From: talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org
[mailto:talk-bounces at openstreetmap.org] On Behalf Of Richard Fairhurst
Sent: 22 February 2007 13:29
To: talk at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

Phillip Barnett wrote:

> "OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing 
> free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The

> project was started because most maps you think of as free actually 
> have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people

> from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways."
> I particularly refer you to the jibe about 'holding people back from 
> using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.'

Yeah, the opening sentence on the wiki is a very bad joke, particularly
when you then go on to the actual page about "Using OpenStreetMap"  
(http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Using_OpenStreetMap):

"For legal restrictions on the OSM data, see the OpenStreetMap License
and Legal FAQ."

Hang on, didn't we just say that _other_ maps are the ones with "legal
restrictions"?

cheers
Richard


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