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

[Heiko Jacobs]

Lars Aronsson schrieb:
> The perpetual discussion over licenses is very tiring,
> but I can put up with that. What I just can't tolerate
> is this kind of argument that professional lawyers
> have some absolute authority, that trumps every
> contributor's opinion. I'm not saying that these
> lawyers are wrong, but the argument that they are
> correct because they are professionals is a stupid
> kind of argument. It's like saying that professional
> programmers wrote this software, so now we
> can't ever modify it. Most people are involved in
> free software and open content projects exactly
> because they don't like being told such things.
> 
> If these lawyers told OSMF board to push totalitarian
> authority as an argument towards contributors in an
> open content project, then you should ask to get your
> money back, because that would be useless advice.

+1

Especially if the lawyers tell, that a loss of data
and so throwing away a part of the work of the
community is necessary for licence change I can't
tolerate this.

Mueck