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

[Russ Nelson]

Frederik Ramm writes:
 > On 04/16/2011 10:35 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
 > > what, exactly, would persuade you
 > > that this isn't a realistic possibility?
 > 
 > I would like a big player with a big legal department - say, for 
 > example, Navteq - grabbing our data for a reasonably well mapped place, 

I suggest that that hasn't happened because it won't happen because
they're in the same boat as we are, and it isn't sensible to start
drilling holes in OSM's side of the board. Or as Ed suggests, maybe
their big legal department knows something you don't know?

To misquote Jesse Vincent (of Best Practical and thus RT fame):

     Shut The Fuck Up and Make Some Maps.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mn_francis/917796606/

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