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Awesome. Can you go run that project and leave us in peace then
please?<br>
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Steve<br>
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On 7/7/2011 12:35 AM, 80n wrote:
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Frederik
Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Simon,<br>
Andreas,<br>
all,<br>
<br>
when discussing these things with the person who goes by the
pseudonym of "John Smith", keep in mind that he is spending a
lot of time building/supporting an OpenStreetMap "fork".<br>
<br>
The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds
of motivations, the most benign probably being a sincere worry
about data loss - they believe that the license change is
going to hurt OSM so much that they must do all they can do
retain a live copy of the "old OSM", or even dissuade OSMF
from changing altogether.<br>
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Frederik,<br>
I'm sure you've been paying attention an know full well that
the reason <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://fosm.org">fosm.org</a>
exists is because we have grave concerns about the new
license. The only thing we are forking is the license, we are
not forking the tagging scheme or the community or even the
objectives of OSM.<br>
<br>
Data loss is your problem not ours. I see people doing
thought experiments about how they can get around the wishes
of contributors who have, in good faith, provided their
content under the CC license. Those people who have not
agreed to the CT have not consented for their content to be
used in any other way. You should respect that.<br>
<br>
A main objective of OSM was to create maps that were free
enough to be used by everyone. Anything that steps across the
line will taint OSM with the impurity that we strived for so
long to avoid. <br>
<br>
There will forever be doubt about the provenance of OSM data.
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80n<br>
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