[Tagging] Tagging Digest, Vol 113, Issue 52 Co-ordinate sets vs. background informations = ODbL vs. CC

[Paul Allen]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 at 12:34, Sergio Manzi <smz at smz.it> wrote:

> I strongly dissent with the tone of your mail.
>
That is your right.  Even if you are strongly dissenting about somebody
expressing strong
dissent, it is your right.

> Everybody, not only you and the most vocifeferous ones, have the right to
> express their opinion.
>

Indeed.  I strongly support everyone's right to express their opinion.  As
far as I am concerned,
you can say whatever you want.  But you cannot force me, or anyone else, to
listen.  Interacting
with others in a way that stops them listening to you is not an effective
way of getting your point
across.  YMMV.

> You can dissent, but the tone of your mail is definitely rude and divisive.
>
Rude???  I refrained from giving my opinion of the guy (which is something
most people
would consider to be extremely negative) and merely told him what options
were
available to him since he is dissatisfied with the current situation.  The
OSM community
has given a great deal of thought to copyright issues to arrive at their
position and I don't
see much chance of them moving to his position, a position they explicitly
state is (in
their opinion) not tenable.

His only feasible options are to live with what we have, stop mapping, set
up a competing project,
or continue to rant incomprehensibly here.  Should he continue to rant here
then he's likely to
end up in killfiles.  Telling him that isn't rude, it's advising him that
he is not doing himself any
favours with his current behaviour.

> Think twice.
>
I thought three times before I posted.  You would certainly have thought
the second version of my
post to be extremely rude.  And you would have had a conniption fit over
the first version.  What I
actually posted refrained from rebuking him and instead offered a stark,
unadorned explanation
of the options open to him.

-- 
Paul
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