[OSM-talk] revert changesets??

[John Smith]

2009/12/18 Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>:
> Hi,
>
> John Smith wrote:
>>
>> Isn't that like photos, they can prevent your from creating the photo
>> (in some cases like events) but once it exists they have no rights to
>> make you delete it or have any rights over the image itself.
>
> Burning Man sure *try* to regulate the publication of photos (they have been
> publicly critisized by the EFF for that) but so does China. If I have traces
> from somewhere and think they are useful to OSM I will upload them no matter
> what "policy" someone has but then this is an academic debate for me as I am
> unlikely to collect Burnning Man or Chinese traces any time soon ;-)

I thought China wasn't preventing mapping, but trying to extort (more)
money out of mapping companies?