[OSM-talk] OSM composer not open source?

[Frederik Ramm]

hi,

jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com wrote:
> 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.

The topo map consists of three layers, two are OSM derived and CC-BY-SA, 
one (hillshading) is derived from NC data and thus under a NC license.

You can use all these layers according to their respective licenses. If 
the NC license of the hillshade part is not good enough for you, then 
you are free, for example, to create your own hillshading layer derived 
from SRTM data and use that instead of the CIAT-derived hillshade layer 
used in the topo map, and combine that with the CC-BY-SA layers from the 
topo map.

Still, this has nothing to do with the license under which the author 
decided to publish OSM Composer.

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

We have a policy on the FOSSGIS servers (the ones behind 
openstreetmap.de) that says we're not hosting non-free software. If you 
can point me to software being hosted on openstreetmap.de which is 
non-free then it will be removed.

Bye
Frederik