[OSM-talk] Why PD is not better for business

[John Smith]

2009/12/11 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
> I see no evidence that that's the case.  I don't think attempting to impose
> a contractual agreement on others without their consent is going to work,
> and I think there will be significant negative side-effects to such immoral
> behavior.

I don't think immoral is the right word here, people are trying to
come up with a suitable method to make sure everyone is playing fair,
if the data is improved isn't it only fair that the entire community
benefits from it, since whom ever improved it is obviously benefiting
from OSM data in the first place.

Some would see it as immoral to not give back such changes to the community.

While I agree with ODBL in principal, the devil is always in the
details and I'm still trying to find somewhere to obtain Australian
legal advice as to how this may adversely effect the Australian OSM
community.

> Plus I think OSM is going to lose a huge chunk of the database over this.

This would be a disaster, but some have already mentioned having a
read only database with non-ODBL data and then combining it on the
tile server to get round this problem, the problem with that of course
is how to remove non-ODBL data when ODBL data becomes available, since
you wouldn't easily be able to edit or remove such data from a read
only database.