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

M∡rtin Koppenhoefer dieterdreist at gmail.com
Mon Aug 23 15:21:30 BST 2010


2010/8/23 Michael Kugelmann <MichaelK_OSM at gmx.de>:
> BTW: @Felix Hartmann
> using words like
>>
>> so fuck off.
>
> shows that you don't have arguments. So step back - defamation is alsways a
> sign of weakness. Learn a good conduct before you continues with the
> discussion.


to be fair: he didn't write (others) should f**k off, what he meant
was "clearly state this somewhere and tell everyone else to fuck off".
Thus I agree that this might not be adequate language, you shouldn't
critisize him for that, probably he wasn't aware because English is
not his primary language.

On the argument I agree though: make your own mailing lists for your
fork. It's probably OK to announce it here (with an URL where to go,
which was actually missing in your announcement), but further
discussions should then be brought to the place of your fork, not
inside the resources of OSM.

I also agree it would be absurd to have OSM handle over the account
data of its contributors (and is against almost any privacy law at
least in Europe). There is also no logics in that: people who want to
can simply create a new account with their old credentials on the fork
site (I'm not planning to join the fork, but if I was I surely
wouldn't use the same pw I used for OSM).

cheers,
Martin



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