User talk:Olivier Auber

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Wikimapia non-free - OpenStreetMap cc-by-sa 2.0 geodata
Hi, I've stopped using wikimapia since about a year ago. I've taken up the topic of the license with countless users on wikimapia, and I've understood that they don't care. They seem to care mostly about usability, and it reminds me of the usability of popular operating systems. So! I sacrifice usability for freedom, and recently by using only free software in a distribution(gNewSense), at the cost of "some convenience", I anyway feel good in an ethical way. By the way, have you tried OpenStreetMap? If you need help you can find me at OpenStreetMap, and if you are interested to improve the license there is also a legal mailing list on OpenStreetMap. Although they strive to use a license in the spirit of the CC-BY-SA Logictheo (talk) 14:00, 7 July 2009 (UTC)