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Olaf<br>
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What you are suggesting would have amounted to allowing every single
pre-CT mapper<br>
a veto on the license change process. With something around 300'000
pre-CT mappers,<br>
this is obviously not just not practical, it is simply absurd.
Nobody likes losing data and<br>
mappers, but it is unavoidable in a process involving so many people
with so divergent <br>
views on the subject at hand.<br>
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I have to yet see anybody claim that the CTs or the ODbL are
perfect, we are just so far<br>
down the road in the process that the kind of change you have
suggested would have<br>
implied restarting the whole process. There was ample time and
opportunity to give<br>
input and work on the CTs -now- that has gone and any amount of
complaining by<br>
you will not change that (and I say that as somebody who rather
unhappy with certain <br>
aspects of the CTs which I consider substantially more important
than your fear of <br>
conspiracies).<br>
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Simon<br>
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Am 12.08.2011 09:17, schrieb Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer:
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<pre wrap="">[Robert Kaiser, 11.08.2011, 21:17]:
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<pre wrap="">Most of us always agreed that our data is "the data of the OSM project" as
soon as we contributed it, and that the project will always be able to use
it. Some disagree apparently and make the life of the project much harder.
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Unfortunately it is not „the OSM project“ that will decide what happens with
the data in the future. Many contributors who are important parts of the
project will not be allowed to vote on future license changes. The sysadmins
even reserve the right to remove voting rights from people by blocking their
edit rights. See the definition of „active contributor“ in the CT to
understand why. Members of both the sysadmins and of the legal working group
are aware of this, but they have clearly stated that they do not want this to
change. Loosing a few contributors (and their data) is regarded as a minor
problem.
My opinion is that the project consists of all people that contribute to it,
and that all contributors should be acknowledged for their work. Some
influential people disagree obviously, and this make the life of the project
much harder.
OIaf
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