[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Rob Myers]

On 08/05/2010 09:25 AM, John Smith wrote:
>
> You essentially have 2 camps here, the pragmatists who think anything
> but minor data loss is unacceptable, and you have the idealists who
> think even if we loose a most of data people will just put new "freer"
> data back in and we'll be able to then license under the most freest
> license possible so there is no restrictions at all on anything ever
> again.

If we have to make the idealist/pragmatist split then I'd say clinging 
to BY-SA for data is idealistic and changing to another licence is 
pragmatic. But I don't think it's useful to describe things in these 
terms. We all have guiding principles, we all have material interests 
that are threatened, and we are all saying that some loss is acceptable 
to support those principles and address those threats.

- Rob.