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

[Anthony]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 5:20 AM, Ed Avis <eda at waniasset.com> wrote:

> 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.
>

Are you sure they haven't?

Yeah, they haven't taken everything, unreviewed and unedited.  But that
would be a pretty bad idea anyway.
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