[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:42 AM, David Murn <davey at incanberra.com.au> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 07:52 +0100, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
>>  > Can I advertise anything I want on the wiki? I know that flossk
>>  > our group in Kosovo has guidelines on non free software
>>
>> Good for your group in Kosovo. Maybe the fact that "flossk" has "FLOSS"
>> in the name, and OSM doesn't, might give you a clue there. OSM is an
>> open data project, not a free software project.
>
> This has come up at an interesting point for me, as Im considering
> spending a bit of time contributing to OSM coding efforts over the next
> couple of months due to being laid up after surgery.  Ive been a 'free'
> software user and coder for over a decade almost exclusively dedicating
> my efforts to opensource/'free' software.

Me too!
Maybe someday we will have to make a librestreetmap fork of project
with stricter licenses policies for the software and better policies
for the wiki.

mike