[OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 6 January 2011 01:53, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> On 06/01/11 00:37, andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>>
>> Most people contributing to free software/free data
>> projects probably have the opposite opinion.
>
> [citation needed]

See next sentence for my reasoning.

>
>> There are projects like
>> Mozilla, Qt or some FSF's projects that also request the right to
>> relicense by a single body but they're in minority.
>
> Apache as well.

Yes, and many more, but still AFAIK a minority.

>
> Many of the most successful projects apart from the Linux kernel in fact.
>
> They may be in the numerical minority, but they are the most used and most
> successful and most influential projects.

Okay, so this is your experience and my experience is pretty much the
opposite.  The point being both are opinions, no objective statistics
probably exist and when you say "non-relicenseable data should be at
most an exception" that's also just your opinion and in a collective
project like this you have to take the other view into account,
specially if you haven't even given a chance to vote on the issue to
the contributors.  At that point it's forcing an opinion on people
(specially if you publicise it as just a CC-By-SA to ODbL switch).

Cheers