[Talk-us] Resigning in protest
Frederik Ramm
frederik at remote.org
Thu May 13 01:32:12 BST 2010
Hi,
Anthony wrote:
> What if a new contributor reverts it? Would the revert then be
> considered ODBL?
>
> A revert is an edit like any other.
>
> What does that mean?
It means that the legal situation in the following two cases is exactly
the same:
1) A creates road; B edits road; C edits road.
2) A creates road; B deletes road; C undeletes road.
> Maybe it was a bad idea to start out with CC-BY-SA, but ODBL is worse,
> and the process of "switching" is worst of all.
I don't think that CC-BY-SA is worse but you seem to have a peculiar
interpretation of things stateside so YMMV.
Any license change in an open project is always a painful process for
the community.
Bye
Frederik
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