[OSM-legal-talk] CT, section 3

Anthony osm at inbox.org
Fri Nov 26 15:31:17 GMT 2010


On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> Picture yourself next to 100 people who
> have come after you, who have taken what you have given to the project and
> who have built on it, improved it, made it "their" project.
>
> Do you *really* think it is right to say: What's mine is mine, and if those
> 100 people in 10 years make any step that I don't like then I will withdraw
> my work from under them?

I don't know about "any step that I don't like".  But if the project
in 10 years, with 100 times as many people, attempts to use your work
in a way which you feel would be actively harmful, it's not only right
to withdraw your work, it would be wrong not to.



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