[OSM-talk] Opinion poll about the new licence Odbl 1.0

morb.gis at beagle.com.au morb.gis at beagle.com.au
Sun Dec 6 20:24:26 GMT 2009


Quoting Anthony <osm at inbox.org>:

> Part of me suspects that this whole notion of removing contributions from
> people who don't agree is going to get dropped.  At least for the
> contributors who don't respond one way or the other.  It's just going to
> destroy too much of the database.

Wow, this whole issue has kept me up all night, just reading through the emails
and having the implications dawn on me.


Have I got this straight?  That I *must* agree to this odbl licence, or my
(considerable) amount of edits will get *nuked* from the canonical OSM
database?  What a Hobson's choice.

I'd better go and see what this odbl is then?


Brendan








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