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

[Anthony]

On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:53 AM, Peter Körner <osm-lists at mazdermind.de>wrote:

> > E.g. I'd be happy to see things like Google use OSM data and mix it with
> > any other source of data they can get their hands on, but only if
> > improvements they make to the data (or they get from their customers)
> > get fed back to OSM.
>
> How would you differentiate between edits that go to the OSM Data and
> edits that go to "any other source"?
>
> When you're talking about mixing the data, I think of some kind of
> layers. If a user now adds a POI, which layer is affected? Google could
> just drop this POI into their own layer so that it never reaches the
> OSM-Data? This way no improvements would have to go back.
>

Most likely that's possible under the ODbL, since that'd be a produced
work.  I'm not sure if Google would try it or not, though, because the ODbL
is pretty ambiguous.  From one account (which I haven't verified), there's
already OSM data in Google Maps.
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