[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 8:25 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer
<dieterdreist at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/7/13 Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com>:
>> If Richard's statement relayed through Frederik of that at least 90% of data
>> is an absolute minimum becomes binding, (which would still leave a huge
>> amount of room for wiggeling, after all 10% of data would be still 1 1/2
>> entire Germanys, or nearly all of Europe), much of that fear would likely go
>> away.
>
>
> That's a good point: will TIGER, AND and other imports count as
> contributions / share of the data? If they do 90% is not much. If we
> talk about "honest manual mapping contributions" it is quite
> satisfactory on the other hand.

I'm not sure whether such a decision has been made already, but
obviously the conversation will be easier to have *after* people have
decided on relicensing. Perhaps it illustrates why the LWG don't want
to say something arbitrary like "95% of the data" since it does make a
difference which different parts of the data are affected.

Cheers,
Andy