[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[John Smith]

On 23 June 2011 03:37, Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:
> Well, in the case of Haiti this is exactly what happened a lot -- with
> Google's permission, though.

Haiti is one small area, most of the time people that copy from google
don't have permission.

> And having said that I want to point to my original post where I tried to
> emphasize that I respect the choices of the mappers. It's just that I'm
> guessing that not many who have declined or haven't decided but are leaning
> towards declining have thought of the humanitarian / global development /
> even poverty reduction side of their "hobby". ... And if asked, not many of
> them would want to make life even more difficult to the
> world's underprivileged.

Why don't you urge OSM-F to stick with the current license, after all
it's the OSM-F pushing for a license change that will end up causing
data loss.