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

[Steve Coast]

On 7/7/2011 9:37 PM, James Andrewartha 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.
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>> 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.

Right, and I agree with you. But, stopping contributing to OSM or not 
helping the project as a whole by refusing to move license with the rest 
of us is a poor way of protesting the promotion of these concepts. I 
don't like them either, but here we are. It would be difficult and 
complicated to carve out exceptions just for you or just for Australia.

> What do you mean by throw everything away? Who is throwing what away?

I mean throw away the efforts of all the licensing work we've done 
because one guy doesn't like technical detail X or has moral objection 
Y. That is, that we have spent many man years on this and there is no 
way to make everyone happy. We tried hard and it's time to move on. 
Also, once we're switched it's much easier to make the kind of fixes you 
want as subsequent switches are orders of magnitude more easy. Thus, 
lets put our minor differences aside and work for the greater goals we 
have, like mapping the world.

Steve