[OSM-talk] What could we do to make this licences discussion more inclusive?

[Richard Weait]

On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 3:20 PM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 19 July 2010 05:17, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 19 July 2010 05:12, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>> Only if a later license change were to go non-SA.  An hypothetical
>>> situation that you have created.
>>
>> I'm not the only one, since some people are already proposing to push
>> a change to CC0 after the CTs are agreed to.
>>
>
> This keeps bringing up the issue of OSM's whiter than white copyright
> policy, and what happens if the license does change in future to
> non-share alike, do we start purging more data from the main data
> base, how many times would this be acceptable before people stopped
> contributing?

You are creating yet another theoretical situation, John.  Suddenly,
in your perspective, the community is clamouring for the next license
change and the next license change after that?  I don't see it
happening.