[OSM-talk] Full Database dump request - forking possible Was: [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

[Klaus-Guenter Leiss]

Am 6 Dec 2009 um 8:59 hat Apollinaris Schoell geschrieben:
> > 
> > Since some people feel about the vote like being held hostage with a gun
> > to their head somebody should solve their dilemma. Fork now and everybody
> > that might compelled to vote yes for fear to lose their data can vote no 
> > and know they have a new project that has all the data but does not
> > ignore their objections.
> 
> Why should somebody solve their dilemma?

Good question, but I had not assumed that somebody should do it for them. 
Only if somebody of the protestors did start a fork, the whole diskussion 
would be mote. Nobody could complain any longer he was coerced. The 
community would probably split but it would not the first project where a 
fork would be healthy for the common good. I don't think there could be to 
much databases of geographic data  with a more or less free license. Maybe 
a split would slow the growth of OSM, but would that really matter.
  
> These people  must do that themselves. It's easy to complain but will 
> any of them have the energy,  time, funding to setup such a project?

You are correct they must do that themselves.

Klaus Leiss
 
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