[OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? -> How to make a nightmare come true!

[SteveC]

On 4 Mar 2009, at 12:02, Nop wrote:

>
> Hi!
>
> Iván Sánchez Ortega schrieb:
>> El Miércoles, 4 de Marzo de 2009, Ulf Lamping escribió:
>>> Hopefully you know and trust the lawyers, foundation, whoever, ...
>>> involved. WE PROBABLY DON'T KNOW THEM SO WHY SHOULD WE MAGICALLY  
>>> TRUST
>>> THEM?!?
>>
>> Because they are more knowledgeable in their field than we are.
>>
>>
>> I do think this is another ad-hominem attack against the ODbL.
>>
>> By using your same way of thinking, I shouldn't use my car because  
>> I don't
>> know and trust the designers and assemblers that built it. Counter- 
>> examples
>> could go on and on.
>
> The mappers don't know them and have no reason to trust them. They  
> will
> have to prove that they are more knowledgable,

They have by passing the bar.

> but with the prior
> non-information policy they have not even shown that they *care* about
> the mappers opinions at all.

That's not necessarily a constraint. My mechanic doesn't *care* about  
my car and love it like I do. But happily it turns out that both  
Jordan and Clark are deeply passionate about these issues.... or they  
would not be working for free on them.

Best

Steve