[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[John Smith]

On 10 August 2010 22:09, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd like this approach too: each country should be able to decide
> license terms. Communities are different, population/contributor
> densities are very different, laws are different. Would it be really
> practical, and how it could be technically doable - no idea, perhaps
> not. But still I'd like it.

>From the contributor side of things it would relatively straight
forward, you wouldn't be able to make changes within a country polygon
unless you agree to whatever license/terms via the website.

However then taking that information and trying to create a combined
output file would be very difficult, although I suppose you could
output multiple countries in the same file based on compatible
licenses.