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

[Frederik Ramm]

Stefan,

Stefan de Konink wrote:
> Exactly; if your statement is sound. CC-BY-SA doesn't protect us, thus
> doesn't protect us against ourselves, thus OSMF could declare the data
> today as ODbL, and wait to get sued by the editors that doesn't like
> this change, if the CC-BY-SA holds the relicense has just been made a
> copyright infringement and therefore wasn't required in the first place.

This is factually correct, but would you not expect a degree of 
"friendliness" over and above the call of law from those who run the 
project you contribute to?

I don't think that "sorry guys, we tricked you into contributing under 
an invalid license, now all your stuff is basically PD anyway and we're 
going to relicense it in any way we want" is an attitude that would 
attract anyone to the project!

And I don't think you are honestly suggesting that either.

Bye
Frederik

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