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OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

Posted Oct 22, 2008 23:37 UTC (Wed) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313)
Parent article: OpenStreetMap contemplates licensing

as a community we ridicule the companies that try to protect databases of facts (phone books, etc)

as such I think it's wrong to turn around and try and protect databases of facts that we accumulate (this map data is a very good example)


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