[OSM-talk] Countering Google's propaganda

[John Smith]

2009/12/18 Kevin Peat <kevin at kevinpeat.com>:
> If it is because of the license then we should take the opportunity to make
> sure our new license is friendly to these kind of applications and uses as
> what is the point of creating a free map if only a minority of people are
> ever going to see it.

They want to be able to sell map data without giving anything away of
real worth to anyone else, which if we wanted to support this kind of
activity we would just spend out time giving data to Google for free.