[OSM-talk] Why the BSD vs GPL debate is irrelevant to OSM

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> I'm thinking of OSM data as the geodata "source code".

Yes but that's precisely the misconception I wanted to remove with my post.

How many Linux users look at, or work with, the Linux kernel source 
code? Is it 0.001% or rather 0.0001% or even less?

In contrast, how many OSM users will load OSM data into some kind of GIS 
program or rendering engine, combine it with something else or analyse 
it or run processing methods on it? Granted, not *everyone* does it, but 
the number of people doing it is orders of magnitude above the number 
for, say, GPL software!

Bye
Frederik