[OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0 continuation

Jenny Campbell jenuk1985 at googlemail.com
Sun Aug 22 11:17:26 BST 2010


You've got my support. I haven't got involved in all the silly 
bickering, nor do I want to. The moment I am forced to contribute under 
the new licence will be the day I stop contributing. This isn't the OSM 
I signed up for.

Jeni

On 22/08/2010 11:08, Felix Hartmann wrote:
>  Instead of just moaning about the Odbl, let's stark working on a 
> future without Odbl. So let's do our best to convince as many mappers 
> as possible to not accept Odbl, reopen registration to people who want 
> to contribute under CCBYSA2.0 terms, and put pressure on OSMF and 
> others to tell them that if they decide to go the Odbl way, they will 
> loose us and also be faced with a fork.
>
> This is not for legal-talk, because it should not be about why we 
> don't want the Odbl, but what WE can do to stop it and continue 
> working under CCBYSA 2.0
>
> This means we have to find a new domain, new servers, and get the 
> usernames/passwords copied so people can login to the CCBYSA 2.0 fork 
> without new registration.
>
> I put up a wiki page with a few points here, please contribute:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Ccbysa_fork
>
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