[Legal-general] Do we need an extra server at all...?

[Nic Roets]

On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
>    Nic, you're a bit too fast for my liking. Is it even clear that we
> need to set up our own server?


> The situation looks less good in Europe, but more people do join the "my
> contributions are PD" bandwagon and you could extract these
> contributions under PD as well. The cool thing is that this works even
> retroactively; if you convince someone to go PD then all his past
> contributions will be opened up in an instant.
>

To make people change their mind it will help if we can at least point to
some project or publication that uses OSM/PD. Chicken and egg. So let's
start with the least amount of effort and see what happens.


> It has long since been a good tradition in OSM to try and make everyone
> happy: Instead of forcing people to agree on a fixed schema, we allow
> everyone to do as they please and try to work with what we get. This
> works surprisingly well (mostly).
>
> If we could, therefore, somehow manage to turn OSM into a geodata
> distribution platform where the individual contributors can control the
> licensing, then that would be great for everyone. Some put PD data in,
> some share-alike; some retrieve PD, some retrieve share-alike.
>
> This is not trivial but contrary to what some may say and think, OSM is


I would rather see the programmers concentrate on more important things like
undo.
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