[OSM-talk] OSM layer into Adobe Illustrator?

[OJW]

On Monday 26 February 2007 12:59, Lars Aronsson wrote:
> The "national TV" part is making you appear ridiculous.  Would
> free GNU software change their license because a "national TV"
> station wanted to use it differently?  Would the pope give up on
> abortion because a "national TV" station asked him?  Come on.

Totally agree. It's the whole "popularity is everything, don't worry about 
principles" argument, that free software people have been having since 
forever. 

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/copyleft.html

If our map data becomes public-domain, how long will it be before there's no 
free maps available again?  

Do you intend to compete forever against people offering a slightly better, 
slightly more restrictive version of your dataset?  

Keep on paying for better servers so that people "can always come back to the 
original source" rather than downloading a copy of OSM that someone has put 
on their faster server but with a restrictive license?

With the current license, anyone can use our data, that's why it's called the 
creative commons.

And unlike BSD/LGPL-style, it encourages more and more other things to become 
open also.  After all the mapping I've done, I'd far prefer to see it 
encourage the development of free guidebooks or of television news snippets 
with the CC logo on, rather than the "satisfaction" of seeing my map appear 
somewhere popular in a way that I can't copy.

Again, this isn't aimed at the TV company, I'd be delighted to see you use the 
maps -- that's exactly why we use the Creative Commons license, so that you 
don't need to ask anyone's permission.  Hopefully you'll get a better answer 
about what attribution to show, in case the project becomes useful in future 
to your department.

Regards,

OJW