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

[Dave Stubbs]

>> Have you seen this?
>>
>> http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/3/3c/License_Proposal.pdf
>>
> Under the section 'So what should I do?' & 'Refuse', it says: "Your
> contributions will not be deleted"
>
> Yet if you click on the link to the backup plan
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License/Backup_Plan
>
> on the first line it says "As part of the move to the Open Data License
> <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Data_License> it will be
> necessary to remove or hide those edits which have not been re-licensed.
>
> Could you explain the apparent contradiction please?
>

No contradiction, it just depends what you mean by "delete" vs "remove".

OSM would continue on an ODbL only footing without your contributions
-- they would be effectively removed from the main OSM database.
However, your contributions would be available in the full history
dump that would be published as part of the migration procedure and
made available under the current CC BY-SA license, so they don't just
disappear -- they are not deleted. Anybody and everybody would be free
to make use of them just as they are now, just from a different source
(it's possible somebody could organise a proper fork from this dump).

Dave