[Discuss] OpenStreetMap in Victoria

[Daniel M German]

"Nick Black" <nickblack1 at gmail.com> writes:

>> Why not lobby the gov't to change the nasty and disagreeable sections?
>> Our taxpayers dollars created it, why should we not be able to integrate
>> it into free products?
>
> For the same reason that Linus Torvalds didnt sit around lobbying
> Propreitery software vendors.  There are groups who lobby the gov't
> about this and I agree with your sentiments 100%, but I feel that I
> can spend my time more effectively making the data myself, producing
> tools for other people to make and collect data, and helping along
> with guys like Corey to organise mapping events.  When the data is
> feely available in OSM, its value will have been reduced to such a
> level that the gov't will have little choice other than to release
> their data under a comparable license.
>
> For an idea of my views on this, check out this blog post:
>
> http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=184

I am curious,

Attribution is not against the spirit of open source. Why not change
the licence of the project from creative commons to creative-commons
attribution?

The wiki says "we do not support this sort of attribution". I am
curious of why (rhetoric question but if somebody has the answer, it
would be great to hear it).


dmg

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