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

Florian Heer florianheerfheb at yahoo.de
Sun Aug 22 12:08:03 BST 2010


Felix Hartmann schrieb:
>  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 think this is quite interesting: if you do not do as I want, YOU will 
be responsible. Isn't there a term for this? I think it's "blackmail"

> 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 think this could be a real problem. Because I for one do not agree to 
have my log in credentials copied to any other server.



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