[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

Kevin Peat kevin at kevinpeat.com
Sat Apr 16 20:21:36 BST 2011


On 16 April 2011 19:42, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> If people are indeed doing that then I would *definitely* suggest the fresh
> air option, no matter what we intend to do license-wise; see recent imports
> discussion on talk-gb ("Adding a further 250,000 roads quickly using a
> Bot").
>
> Over 20000 ways were added in Britain in the last month (per ITO) and I
would think a fair proportion of these must be coming from the OS data.

...
>
> Most of what I wrote here hasn't been formally said by anyone in OSMF, but
> OSMF haven't fully thought this through either, and the above is simply the
> logical course to take given all the conditions and plans that *have* been
> discussed.
>
>
> Thanks for your thoughtful answer. It is certainly a lot more detailed than
anything I have read before. My first impression is how can a process with
so many grey areas possibly result in a cleanly licensed dataset?

Kevin
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