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

Andrew Ayre andy at britishideas.com
Sun Aug 22 18:43:32 BST 2010


Eugene Alvin Villar wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 6:08 PM, Felix Hartmann 
> <extremecarver at googlemail.com <mailto:extremecarver at googlemail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     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.
> 
> 
> If you must fork, fork the data (planet.osm), not the user data. I 
> disagree with having my credentials being carried over to a separate 
> project that I would not want to be involved in.

When I signed up for an account with OSM I didn't realize that my 
account information was going into a database that was also CCBYSA.

Although I accept that this probably was stated somewhere, I would 
prefer to not have my login information copied. Let me choose to create 
an account if I want to.

Andy

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