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

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

uation is so serious, there should surely be plenty of examples
> by now.

>It only takes *one* example to take all our data and feed it into some 
>proprietary giant's database. Would you prefer to wait? Or even: If you

>were a member of the OSMF board entrusted with our data's safe keeping,

>would you prefer to wait? And then, when users complain, you'd say: "Oh

>well, lawyers told me back in 2008 that this would happen but I figured

>I'd rather not upset the apple cart"?


I would not have a problem with that. 

OSM will still be there and the world will have better data on average.
And free data cannot be exploited commercially, unless improved.
But the thieve won't have the community behind it to maintain the stolen
data 
and OSM would.
Please stop creating free data, if at the same time you restrict it's
free-ness.


Bye
Frederik

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