[talk-au] Active Australian OSM contributors in light of CT/license changes

[Anthony]

On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 12:37 AM, James Andrewartha
<trs80 at student.uwa.edu.au> wrote:
> On 8 July 2011 11:26, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
>> This reads like you disagree with taxation or death. I do too, but there's not much I can do about it. The vast majority of people are happy with where we are at and now it's down to people holding out because of a comma in the wrong place or a moral objection to various aspects of intellectual property law. While I agree that it's not perfect, I don't see how it's reasonable to throw everything away for one guy who doesn't like his countries laws.
>>
>> Unless you have a reasonable solution or I have misunderstood?
>
> I am quite happy with my country's laws, which don't include database
> right, and don't want to promote such a concept.
>
> What do you mean by throw everything away? Who is throwing what away?

OSMF is throwing away the data of people who don't relicense under
ODbL.  They're doing this because they don't like the laws of
countries like Australia and the US.

That must be what he means :).