[OSM-dev] Bittorrent

[Maarten Deen]

Stefan de Konink wrote:
 > Paul Johnson wrote:
 >> 2) If we have nothing to hide (we don't), and especially given that
 >> nothing about OSM is anonymous, what's with this irrational insistence
 >> that anonymity is the standard all the sudden?  Does OSM as a project
 >> even care or attempt to log who is receiving the data to begin with?
 >
 > To make things absolutely clear. If any new license will prohibit in any
 > way the distribution of the planet without signing or agreeing, this
 > bittorrent service will continue anyway as it is now.

That is no problem, as any future license can only govern any future planet 
files. A new license can not go back in time and say "every previous planet is 
illegal to distribute".
To do that and to enforce that needs a whole lot of power, money and attorneys.

IANAL,
Maarten