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

[Anthony]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Anthony <osm at inbox.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:54 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 2009/12/11 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
>>
> > 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,
>>
>
> You can only do that if you release the tiles under CC-BY-SA, which means
> that anyone else is free to extract the data from the tiles and use it under
> CC-BY-SA.
>

Isn't copyleft great!  Real copyleft, not that ODbL crap.
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