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

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On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Robert Kaiser <kairo at kairo.at> wrote:

> 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.
>

Who's talking about changing the direction of OSM?  There's no consensus for
any change of direction that I'm aware of.  Arguing that imports should not
be allowed because there *might* be change in direction is very
presumptuous.




> 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
>
>
>
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