[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[SteveC]

On Aug 4, 2010, at 10:30 PM, John Smith wrote:

> On 5 August 2010 12:59, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> This is simple straw man crap. 80n invents a deadline, proceeds to piss off everyone, take all our time and thus slow things down, then declare we're not meeting the deadline.
> 
> Regardless I've communicated with some older contributors in recent
> times that flat out refuse to do anything with OSM until the license
> is sorted out because they're worried that their contributions will
> ultimately be a waste of time, the longer this goes on the increasing
> number of people are going to be hesitant about contributing...

I agree, FUD isn't fun. But it's you and a couple of others having a significant time sink effect on the people trying to move it forward.

Steve

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