[OSM-dev] Fwd: [OpenStreetMap] ODbL

[Anthony]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 9:21 AM, Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 January 2011 14:13, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> What about the proactive community against the license change, or
>> don't they/their views count?
>
> You haven't forgotten that such users hold the ultimate sanction? They
> get to withhold their own work _and_ that of others unfortunate enough
> to build on their foundations.

When the data was submitted it was submitted on certain conditions.
One of those conditions is that people who build on the foundation of
the contributions have to give others the same freedoms as they have
been given.

That permission was given irrevocably, and no one is trying to withdraw that.