[OSM-talk] [Candidacy] AGM Foundation 2010 - Girona

[John Smith]

On 3 July 2010 20:39, Oliver (skobbler) <osm.oliver.kuehn at gmx.de> wrote:
> license. In essence I would like to understand who is intended to benefit
> from a PD-license, mappers, consumers, developers, companies, data donors? I

Some data is being released in Australia from governments under cc-by
licenses, and they would possibly benefit from OSM having a cc-by
compatible license, I'm sure some other donors would be in the same
boat. I think Sam has mentioned some Canadian government data is being
released without any restrictions and they wouldn't be able to accept
any data back unless there was no restrictions, so in this case a PD
license would benefit donors.

I think most declarations by end users are more moral than anything,
in that most end users wouldn't stand to gain anything tangible
directly regardless of what the license is.

I doubt most consumers or developers would gain anything directly,
usually they benefit from services but is it OSM's place to demand how
the data should be used?

NGOs might benefit from a more liberal license, simply because they
may be able to build up their own from different sources, although
those sources then might claim copyright due to being a derivative
product.

In my mind, the main beneficiary would be companies selling products
or services and gaining a competitive advantage over their competition
by not being required to share any changes they make. This in turn
might be detrimental for consumers and developers because they may
want to use the most consistent map source but not necessarily the
best license or price for their users and so on.