[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

[John Smith]

On 1 May 2010 20:32, jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com
<jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com> wrote:
> My idea is pretty simple, if you want to have propriety software,
> please host it somewhere else. If you cannot host it on any of the
> free software hosting sites because you want to have a restrictive
> license, then please host it on a normal site, but you will have to
> pay for bandwidth or have some type of advertising etc. There are many
> webpages for hosting your propriety data and files.
>
> It is however confusing to see propriety software being hosted on some
> site with a name like *.openstreetmap.* .

You pointed out the software was free of charge for non-commercial
use, was there also a payment option somewhere, other wise "open" is
pointless since the software is still free of charge for the end user.

closed source isn't the same as commercial software being hosted.