[OSM-talk] How is there not any creative-type (US) copyright in OSM data?

[John Smith]

2009/12/14 Brendan Morley <morb.gis at beagle.com.au>:
> What is *materially removed* from you if your "labour is used to
> commercially benefit others" and/or "commercial companies [are] just sucking
> up all
> the data and not giving hardly anything back in return if they extend the
> map"?

I'm not a source of free labour for multinational corporations to
abuse, if they want to hire me that's fine, but I choose to not work
for them for free unless they want to contribute back as well.