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

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Sun Aug 22 11:58:28 BST 2010


Felix,

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.

I am all for people being constructive, so you have my support if you 
want to create a fork, and I have no reason to tell people that they 
should not support that. There are certainly good uses for a fork.

However, you do not only want to create a fork but *also* do your best 
to harm the rest of the project that goes along with ODbL. You say you 
want to convince as many people as possible not to sign up to ODbL, in 
order to cripple that effort, with the hope of in the end forcing 
everyone to stick with your fork.

These two aspects are separate - you could set up a fork *without* doing 
anti-ODbL propaganda.

I think this is unnecessary. Also, from discussions myself various 
others had with you on the German forum, I still have the impression 
that your opposition to ODbL is based on fear and uncertainty and not on 
fact. I don't think you have understood (or are willing to understand) 
the reasons for changing the license.

(If you feel you need to discuss this further, please make sure to do so 
on legal-talk and not here.)

This is not a good starting position for a fork. I'd rather have somone 
do it who doesn't do it out of blind protest and political propaganda.

Bye
Frederik

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