[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 11:41 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> In another post you wrote that topo.openstreetmap.org cannot be "freely
> mirrored". That is true insofar as that we are likely to ban your IP if you
> try to to create such a mirror due to the load on the server, much as you
> would be banned if you tried to "mirror" tile.openstreetmap.org.

Of course, that is not the issue, my point was simple, it is just that
by hosting non free software you are effectively limiting the users to
make a copy of the site or use its contents. if it is practical or not
is another issue.

By freely mirrored, i mean you do not have the freedom to mirror it
and use it under a creative commons or any other public use license.

That is why the wikipedia commons does not want fair use material
posted.  http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Fair_use

I am not advocating using up precious bandwidth or anything like that,
and I don't want to start a big emotional debate.

My only point is that, like sf.net we should not be hosting non free
software on the osm site (s).

thanks,
mike