[OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

[Frederik Ramm]

Erik,

Erik Johansson wrote:
> Yes I'm sure it has to do with JOSM

Why are you sure? Have they told you so? I still don't see what it is 
about JOSM in particular that is a problem. As I said, the license 
change is advertised in many other places too.

I don't think we should stop informing people of the upcoming license 
change just because this makes some people send messages to others.

It's not that JOSM says "please write messages to everyone who hasn't 
yet signed up".

> and it seems like you think it should continue?

On the whole, I think it is better if people are asked to relicense by a 
fellow mapper than if they get an email from OSMF. Of course I wouldn't 
like to get several such emails per day either. The problem we currently 
have in this regard is that you cannot publicly make a final decision 
"no, I won't relicense and I'm ok with my data being replaced". Thus 
some people, when finding lots of "red" areas, might decide to write an 
email to the mapper in question (maybe he simply hasn't yet heard of the 
license change). Once we have such a public "no, certainly not" option, 
the same mapper can simply start fixing the "red" stuff rather than 
wasting time with emails.

Bye
Frederik

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