[OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

Ed Avis eda at waniasset.com
Tue Dec 8 10:20:43 GMT 2009


John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 <at> gmail.com> writes:

>If GPLv3 was inspired by Tivo, I think this license is somewhat
>inspired by Google and other commercial mapping companies, who have a
>habbit of sucking in all the data they can get their hands on and not
>giving anything back.

Google have recently started using their own set of map data for the USA.
If it were possible for them to take OSM data under the current licence they
would have done so.  This suggests that the current share-alike provisions are
working as intended.

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Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com>





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