[OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

[Stefan de Konink]

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SteveC schreef:
>> SteveC schreef:
>>> So I can't license data because it's factual?
>> You cannot /copyright/ the data because it is factual. A license
>> for what you couldn't /copyright/ in the first place is not an
>> analogy of GPL vs BSD.
> 
> Why not? It's incredibly similar. You're on the BSD side, morally.
> I'm on the GPL side.

Anyone that traces their trails might think this action is creative. If
that was as creative as writing a computer program or an algorithm[1]
that did this for you... then one probably understand that one is not
making a Rembrandt.

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Mapgenerator

>>> Anyway, back on planet Earth, there are lots of people who do
>>> want OSM to be virally licensed. You guys reiterating the great
>>> BSDvGPL holy war with pseudo legal arguments isn't going to
>>> change that.
>> The amount of people wanting to go PD with their data is probably
>> the inverse to the amount of people to want to keep viral.
> 
> Sigh. Based on what? Based on that crappy poll? You have to be
> kidding. The universe doesn't only consist only of PD people on this
> list you know. There's a ton of people who are pro-SA and they tend
> to be the more rational ones who can't be bothered with yet another
> dumb poll or to comment back whenever someone brings up some
> pseudo-legal argument based on their 'university of life' education.

The OSM universe doesn't end at the OSMF members either. So I wonder
what you are trying to prove here with /your/ vote. Statistical relevance?


>> So try to win the battles you can win, otherwise maybe the best way
>> forward is to ask the users if /any fork/ could continue with
>> PD/CC0.
> 
> I would love to watch a PD fork slowly die. Please start one.

If we can get into a contractual agreement that your... [oh nevermind]


Stefan
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