[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[SteveC]

On Aug 5, 2010, at 6:43 AM, SteveC wrote:

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

Oh and BTW this exact dragging on is why I suggested we bound the problem by signing up new users - so the problem doesn't grow every day with more and more people.

Steve

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