Then I could look up places I want to go on GMaps and send them to OSMAnd+ for navigation. I'd be letting Google know that I am interested in that place - no way around it - but I could keep the information of whether I actually went there and how long I stayed within OSM, without sharing my location with Google.Īnother, probably easier plugin would be one that lets OSMAnd recognize the location provided by Google Maps when I use the share button. But I would be OK with a plugin that lets me click on a store on OSM to open it in a Google Maps page in a webview. Obviously this is all information that Google has and OSM doesn't. Looking up that kind of info is, by far, the most common reason for me to open the maps app in the first place, before I actually decide that I want to go there and start navigation. OSM maps will include store and venue locations, but Google Maps will show me their opening hours and give me their phone number, website, and (for restaurants) menu and food pictures. But again none of this matters here, because isn't GPL software, so this entire diversion has been a waste of time.Ī critical aspect OSMand is missing for me are business information. It doesn't suffice to show that it was true in 2010. At this point, if a person is going to claim that there's a conflict, the onus is on them to show that it's true-just like the FSF did at the time they published that blog post. The last time I spent an afternoon doing an analysis, I found that the terms at the time didn't conflict with GPL. They've been revised multiple times in the last 10 years, and the FSF post hasn't been updated. The FSF post was true in 2010, but unlike GPLv2, v3, etc, the Apple terms are not static documents. I've also looked at it more than once in the intervening years. I read it when it was published in 2010, and because I'm not careless I read it again this morning before and after I posted my comment. Is that supposed to be a trump card? I've read that FSF document. The way that this comment implies a carelessness about the way I operate is more than a little annoying, especially in light of the clear-cut carelessness of your original comment.
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