[OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open (was: Re: [Talk-GB] Yet another trunk road query - A495)

[Colin Marquardt]

2010/1/2 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Maybe it is time for us at OSM to make a distinction between
>
> (a) open projects in the sense and spirit of OSM, where scripts, style
> files, and everything else is open and license-wise available for
> everyone to look at and build upon, and
>
> (b) proprietary projects, whether of commercial or private nature, which
> we are still happy to have using our data and which we will still linkt
> to and all, but which we do not consider "part of the family".

As a proud member of the (a) category[1], I'm all for it :)

Cheers
  Colin

1 - http://mapnik-utils.googlecode.com/svn/sandbox/cascadenik/hike_n_bike/,
http://gitorious.org/alpha-hillshading/alpha-hillshading/trees/master