[OSM-talk] Will Google ever use OSM data?

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Tue Nov 3 03:51:44 GMT 2009


2009/11/2 John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com>:
> 2009/11/3 Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:
>> No.  I was going to say "not unless OSM abandons CC-BY-SA in favor of
>> public domain", but that's not going to ever happen either, so no.
>
> Google has no problem with saying where the data comes from, they
> already do this by commercial companies.

True.  I should have said "a non-copyleft license" rather than "public
domain".  CC-BY would probably be easier to implement than public
domain, actually.

> This isn't the same thing as something like GPL where if you
> distribute a binary you have to distribute the source code too.

It's geodata.  The binary is the source.




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