[OSM-talk] Enough is enough: disinfecting OSM from poisonous people

[Patrick Kilian]

Hi,

>> There is a big difference between pointing out "the current form of the
>> contributor terms means that we will loose 80% of the data in Australia.
>> Do you really want to proceed?" and jumping into every thread and
>> spreading FUD that has been dissected and disproved several times by
>> different people. Only one is poisonous to the project. Can you spot which?
> 
> At least if you are going to start your own FUD get the details
> correct, the estimate is 1/3-1/2 no one said anything about 80%...
No matter if the claim is 10% or 100% it should be made and it should be
heard.


> Secondly no one has disproved anything, unless you count speculation as proof.
I was not referring to the statement that the current contributor terms
would lead to data loss in Australia when I said "disproved FUD".

But there has been the claim "CC-BY-SA works perfectly well". If it
actually works has to be tested in court. But there are enough lawyers
that have told us "it might very well break" that the _perfectly_ part
of the statement is definitely false. If it worked _perfectly_ well
noone would have any doubt about the current license. Yet the statement
surfaces over and over again.


Patrick "Petschge" Kilian