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

[John Smith]

On 17 July 2010 04:07, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:
> Did you think there would be no losers?  The project can’t please
> everyone.  If you care that much, why not campaign with reasons against
> the license change, and encourage lots of OSMers to disagree with it. If
> you’re lucky you might get enough support to halt the process.  With all
> of your talk about majorities, surely this would be the way to change
> things, and not just a thread of whining and fear about the loss of
> imported data on the list.

At this stage I'm against the process, not the new license, but of
course you completely missed what my motivation is, which is making an
informed determination if the loss is acceptable or not, if it isn't
and ODBL still goes ahead then I'll be forced to fork.