[OSM-talk] Frederik declares war on data imports...

[Robert Kaiser]

John Smith schrieb:
> For anyone still fence sitting over the new contributor terms and the
> ODBL this is what you have to look forward to in the near future:
>
> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-August/003908.html

Don't fight his conclusion, but his "if" in that sentence: |If imports 
now, in addition, start to become a corset that limits our choices with 
regards to where the project should be going, then it is *high time* to 
get rid of them completely.|

He has a point in that anything limiting our choice of where we are 
going is something we need to closely inspect. And if we want to change 
the direction os OSM, that surely has some cost, even to the point of 
excluding some data. That needs to be clear. We need to think about the 
"if"s and not the conclusions there.
Let's go "what if" and weigh the grand outcomes logically, not not fight 
over some people pointing out some details of some possible outcome.

> If these people were serious about making a PD set of map data they
> would start their own project rather than foisting their morals and
> agendas on the rest of us.

Offending them doesn't help either. We are still ONE community in ONE 
project, we should put all our heads together and find common ground 
instead of trying to fight against each other and dividing this great 
community.
I have seen some dividing fights in other communities, but real progress 
only really came around when people finally worked together on common 
ground.

Robert Kaiser