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

[Andy Allan]

On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 11:17 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 July 2010 19:57, Andy Allan <gravitystorm at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Oh, this is ridiculous. Of course I've agreed to CC-BY-SA. The ODbL
>> didn't even exist when I joined OSM - and you know that fine and well
>> Etienne, you were there too when there was only 3 of us mapping in SW
>> London. So it's a crazy line of argument that you are following.
>
> It isn't crazy or ridiculous, he actually has a point, if I didn't
> agree with cc-by-sa I could have spent my time contributing to google
> under their license, but I don't like their license I prefer
> cc-by-sa...

No, he was making the point that CC-BY-SA has 100% support amongst all
the contributors, since we all agreed to it, and is using that to
suggest that nobody wants to relicense and that anyone who does needs
to fork the project. That's the ridiculous part.

It's got nothing to do with Google and it's not helpful to drag them
into the discussion.

Cheers,
Andy