@flohoff @seav hmmm, I don't agree. Under a public domain license, we would have every big and small company forking of, trying to start their own community. There are plenty of examples like this already, but we'd have even more then, but they are starting to fuse.
And why would people bother to not use Google Maps, if they could take whatever they needed? It would always have been better then OSM.
Also: I do think that the casual amount of google maps contributions is far underestimated.