Rebuild -- NO LONGER ACTIVE. Temporary forum for technical discussion of process, tools and functionality for rebuilding the OSM database ready for ODbL change-over
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The goal is to cut-over to the ODbL license on April 1st. This means that contributions, specifically the Intellectual Property Right value, made by folks who have not accepted the new contributor terms must be cleaned out of the current db by that date. This is a temporary forum for discussing technical design, implementation and execution of process, tools and functionality for the final rebuild itself as well for helping folks visualize problem areas, helping them remap, showing progress, doing targeted reverts, and doing license acceptance on a finer scale than per contributor. Experimentally, discussions in at least English and German are encouraged. This is not a forum for discussing the merits of the OSM contributor terms nor of different licenses! To see the collection of prior postings to the list, visit the Rebuild Archives.
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