[OSM-talk] Death by a thousand nitpicks

[Stefan de Konink]

On Wed, 4 Aug 2010, Joseph Reeves wrote:

>> Let's try not to subject OSM data users to death by a thousand
>> self-appointed license nitpickers.
>
> Mapquest, Microsoft and now Nearmap; whenever anybody tries to do
> anything with OSM, there's always a license / attribution backlash.
> It's really sad, but hopefully largely ignored outside the world of
> the talk mailing list.

Do you really think that the OSMF tries to sue? Given their biggest 
license debate stuff is currently 'the license is not appropriate'?

Worst case it becomes factual data, protected by some local laws or 
european dirrective. Sadly the fud is indeed the main issue.


Stefan