[OSM-talk] Using editors to indicate license preference.

[Jukka Rahkonen]

SteveC <steve <at> asklater.com> writes:


> I'm personally thinking at this stage that a better solution 
> would be for the license move to ODbL to include
> a fork as part of the agreement, so everyone contributes their 
> data as both ODbL and/or PD, not just move to
> ODbL. We could host a PD or CC0 server alongside the ODbL one 
> and just see which dataset grows more quickly. I
> think Google and others will quickly rape the PD server while 
> the ODbL server will have a process which is
> either manual or automated to pull in the PD data and will 
> always be the better map. Would that make the PD
> crowd happy? Personally I don't see it as much different to 
> just working for Google and TomTom for free.
> 
> Yours &c.
> 
> Steve

Nice plan. I see a minory difference and it is working for free 
for both Google and TomTom and OSM and anybody else who might be 
interested in my contributions. Perhaps some users do not add 
anything back to the free dataset but they cannot take the data 
away from other users either.

-Jukka-