[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[John Smith]

On 24 June 2011 02:36, Eugene Alvin Villar <seav80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 1. Signing your rights away is not necessarily a bad thing. (The FSF
> asks you to do exactly that when contributing to GNU software
> projects, for good reasons, though others may rightfully disagree.)
>
> 2. Anyway, the OSM CT does not require you to sign away your rights.
> You just give OSMF a very broad license grant, just like what the
> Apache Software Foundation asks of its contributors.

Those points aside, the license is usually fixed, some people who
volunteer their free time, only do so based on a specific license, or
similar.

Some people prefer GPL some prefer BSD, but the 2 usually don't mix
well because they have different ideals or goals.

> 3. Commercial projects are not necessarily bad things either.
> Comparing OSMF to a commercial entity (but the comparison is not
> correct, see #2 above) like it's a bad thing doesn't make sense.

I didn't mean to imply there was anything wrong with them, however I
don't usually like volunteering for large multinationals.