[OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?
Michael Barabanov
michael.barabanov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 17 18:35:05 BST 2010
> 1. OSMF does change the license without any regard; people who are against
>> ODBL get pissed off and stop contributing (lost for OSM?). No data loss from
>> the database.
>>
>
> 2. OSMF does not do that; contributions of people who are against ODBL are
>> deleted, people who are against ODBL stop contributing anyway. Potential
>> data loss.
>>
>
> This is true but I am pretty convinced that (1) would lead to people
> saying: "Ah, OpenStreetMap, those guys that re-licence their stuff at will."
> - We would be thrown in with people like CDDB.
>
Not a great analogy as CDDB isn't really open, right?
>
> I think that there are people who are against ODbL but will continue
> contributing if they see that this is what most project members want. I
> think that this number will be much smaller if OSM is seen to ignore their
> contributors' will. But this is only my impression; maybe one should start a
> poll asking: "Would you find it morally acceptable to simply change the
> license without giving a damn for what contributors say?"
I think a poll would be good. Perhaps with a different wording though:)
Here's another possible scenario: even if OSMF is not willing to do forced
relicensing, individual contributors may choose to effectively do so. Say
OSMF does remove the data from the main database (what? how? this is poorly
defined for all but trivial cases), but a contributor is convinced (by OSMF,
no less:)) that CC BY-SA is the same as PD for data, and copy-pastes removed
data back into the main database. Not so easy in case of complex relations
etc, but doable. I wonder if that would be a widespread scenario.
Michael.
>
> Bye
> Frederik
>
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> Frederik Ramm ## eMail frederik at remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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