[OAM-talk] A can of worms. (varying licenses on imagery)

[Christopher Schmidt]

On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 12:45:31AM +0000, Ian Stirling wrote:
> I may in the next year or two be in a position of having moderately
> large amounts of my country aerial mapped.
> 
> As this would be one of my main sources of income, I'm unwilling to do
> the not inconsiderable amount of work, and then donate it, as I'd find
> it hard to do other things I have an interest in, for example eating.
> 
> I want however to make the imagery available to projects like openstreetmap.
> 
> My first thoughts as to what I would like are some license that says
> something like:
> 
> You can use this data for any non-commerical purpose.
> Access per-tile for commercial purposes for $w
> You can buy a tile of this data as a one-off for your commercial project
> for $x.
> After 5 purchases of the imagery have been made, or on the payment of
> $4x, the data is released cc-by-sa, or some other license.
> 
> z% of the funds for this go back to openaerialmap.org.
> 
> Any thoughts?

It's interesting. I'm not sure if it fits alongside openaerialmap or not
-- to me, it seems likely that you'd want to do this on your own,
anyway, to be able to drum up publicity for your stuff (rather than for
a 'project', which is typically more community oriented).

I'm not sure if you'd make any money this way, but I'd love to hear if
you manage to pull it off and keep food on the table :) And if you think
there's a way OAM can help/participate.

Regards,
-- 
Christopher Schmidt
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