[OSM-talk] Not-properly-Open-but-called-Open

[Sarah Hoffmann]

Hi,
 
Frederik Ramm wrote:
>      I'm breaking this out of talk-gb and into talk.
> 
> Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> > Sadly [the openmtbmap author] 
> > refuses to open-source his code 
> > (http://openmtbmap.org/faq/#i-would-like-to-have-a-look-into-the-style-file-for-mkgmap), 
> > which is entirely his prerogative but a shame nonetheless.
> 
> 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".
> 
> We cannot, and do not want to, trademark the words "open", "free" and 
> the like, but I think we could be a little bit more assertive about whom 
> we consider to be a kindred spirit and who is doing his own thing, and 
> apply the tiniest amount of pressure for people to upgrade from (b) to (a).

More of (a) would be lovely. Speaking of it, is the source code behind 
the OSM Inspector available somewhere? It might provide very instructive 
to see how you do the data processing.

Sarah