[OSM-talk] License plan

[Ed Loach]

> Well, then there is question: what is worse?
> 
> 1. Have all the data, but risk someone "abusing it"?
> 2. Or force the license change, therefore enforcing the share-
> alike
> rights correctly, but tossing some data away?
> 
> Note that if cc-by-sa is somehow abusable, anybody that want to
> abuse
> the license using some loophole will simply grab last dump
> srill
> published under cc-by-sa instead of the new license - and then
> abuse
> the non-enforcability of cc-by-sa to databases.

As I think someone else pointed out, if it is abusable then we could abuse it and not lose any data with the switch. 

Ed