[OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 11/24/2010 10:57 AM, Erik Johansson wrote:
> It would be great if someone could convince the JOSM people to remove
> the ODbL blurb in JOSM, people get scared and spam everyone who hasn't
> agreed to the new license.
>
> I do not appreciate getting lots of ODbL FUD spam,

Are you sure this has something to do with JOSM? I mean, we've been 
saying it for half a year now on EVERY wiki page ("OSM is changing its 
license"...) and it's been on the JOSM startup page for quite a while 
now. Is it not likely that what you're seeing is the effect of a much 
more recent development, namely maps like 
http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/ where people can see which 
areas have been edited by people who haven't yet agreed to the CT/OdbL?

I would not want people to send messages to "total strangers" but if it 
is someone from an area where you have edited a lot, then I can 
understand that if they find a large section of his city or quarter not 
relicensed that they become concerned and send you a message. - When I 
map somewhere, I know that this might result in me being contacted by 
"total strangers", i.e. other members of this project who care for the 
place I've edited.

Bye
Frederik