[OSM-legal-talk] Unsetting CT flag

[Andrew Harvey]

On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> What? Oh, fuck. That's really fucking bad.
>
> So we have broken CTs, and absolutely no way to avoid them. Who the
> fuck came up with that fucking stupid policy? With the greatest
> respect for the LWG, who are acting in good faith, this strikes me as
> dumb. As soon as the first problems with the CTs 1.0 were realised, it
> should have been repealed, sent back for further analysis, then
> version 1.1 brought out. Leaving a broken 1.0 version in place, and
> giving no opt-out mechanism is terrible form.
>

Exactly. I've said this previously on this list. Until the CTs are
finalised and all users are forced to agree or be told that they are
no longer welcome, the CTs should not be mandatory for new users.

When I get the time, I'll start looking into the current CC BY-SA osm
forks and see if they have open development that I could help out
with.