[OSM-legal-talk] Licence Implementation plan - declines ornon-responses

[jamesmikedupont at googlemail.com]

On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 4:47 PM, David Groom <reviews at pacific-rim.net> wrote:
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> ornon-responses
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>> my question is, why dont you just make a fork for the new license and
>> leave the rest of us to continue in peace? get the new system working
>> and then we can talk about it.
>> mike
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> Mike
>
> even if there was a fork for the new licence, my question would still
> remain, as it would have to be decided what remained in the fork.
>
> David

yes, of course, but it would be easier to spin up the new system, test
it, work out the bugs and then keep them both running in parallel.
The problems that will occur will at least not be critical for the
functioning of the stable system.

you would just need an option for people to copy over data into the
new server, it could start with nothing and people would sign up,
agree to the new license and chose changesets they want to import. I
personally would not have a problem with that for some of my edits, I
have been working on berlin recently and dont have any problem to move
those over to the new system.

That would give people the option to use what they want.
I think that would be the best solution, instead of this big bang that
seems to be planned.

just my 2 cts.

mike