[talk-au] Database licence

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote:
> 2009/12/5 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
> > Only those who belonged to OSMF in Oct 09 will get a vote. Those who are
> > 'merely' contributors will only get to be asked if they will relicense
> > their data or not. Only data from people who agree to relicensing will go
> > forward into the new licence.
>
> I wonder if this will be the final straw that leads to the data being
> forked.
>
> There generally seems to be 2 camps in most debates like this, you
> have the idealists, and the pragmatists.... eg Debian=idealists,
> Ubuntu=Pragmatists.
>
> I'm generally not that overly concerned with the rest of the world,
> but will be really upset with how this will push Australia backwards,
> the ABS data and other datasets recently released by the verious
> Australian governments has been very good in helping to push things
> forward in low denisty areas and there is a lot of data that will just
> up and vanish if they enforce this.
>
> I'm not an OSMF member and have been getting more and more annoyed
> with the way things are headed by the idealists.
>
> I have the resources (hardware/bandwidth) at my disposal to do
> something if I absolutely have to about Australia. I am really hoping
> it won't need to come to that outcome because it will fork resources
> considerably as the camps diverge.



I too am seeing a fork in Australia as a result of this.