[Strategic] Fwd: Subject: Forks and such

[TimSC]

On 30/08/10 00:23, Henk Hoff wrote:
> Like Jim observed: if the data is forked, the data will diverge. Thats 
> a simple fact.
This is not in dispute. Jim raised it to try to say proliferation of 
licenses was not like the proliferation of tools. Conversely, I was 
arguing that they were similar and diversity is a good thing in this case.

>
> In the end you still have different databases with different licenses 
> that are not all interoperatible with eachother. So what have we gained?
We have more map data than we have before. Of course, it is not in a 
single database or under a single license. Is this a bad thing?

TimSC