[OSM-legal-talk] decision removing data

[Anthony]

On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 4:25 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> 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.

So why can't the latter camp just start a new project from scratch?
They'd probably have caught up by now.