[josm-dev] Fwd: Filter Google from Imagery?

[Anthony]

On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> I understand that there will be a tiny fraction of users negatively affected
> by this, but I think it is necessary. We've witnessed a growing number of
> "Google violations" in the past year and I would not want JOSM's reputation
> to be tainted as the editor that makes this easy.

Oh please.  A tiny fraction?  I'm sure there are lots of people who
use Google aerials to trace for OSM.  We just aren't dumb enough to
tell anyone about it.

At the very least allow people to use whatever imagery that they want
when they're using non-openstreetmap servers.  This can then be yet
another reason to use a fork, and not OSM.

Or do you really want to force us to fork JOSM too?