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

[Richard Fairhurst]

On 12/11/2009 21:31, SteveC wrote:
> That's half true. Nobody likes the uncertainty around CC, but really they want us to be PD because they don't want to give any data away. They'd love to suck it all in, improve it and then keep the improvements. Just look at the current data set they're not releasing, even in the middle of nowhere, Africa.

Non-commercial restrictions like that are intensely annoying - it allows 
people like Google and the OS to pretend they're being open when it's 
nothing of the sort. I kind of wish that Creative Commons, FSF etc. 
would have a bit of an initiative on this.

cheers
Richard