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

[John Smith]

On 20 July 2010 00:41, SteveC <steve at asklater.com> wrote:
> Gun to your head?

It certainly feels like it from my point of view...

> All I said is maybe we could be nicer to people in the LWG.

There is definitely communications problems here, not to mention
conflicting agendas at work, you can't please everyone all the time,
but it seems to be a priority to try and please people in future at
the expense of people in the present moment.

> There are a hundred ways you could contribute meaningfully to this and yet
> you pick bitter dissent. That's not the 80n I remember, where's it coming

I don't know about 80n, but since I started looking into how much data
will possibly be not carried over it's become very disheartening that
there will be a lot of hard work simply disappear. As others have
pointed out this whole relicensing thing is holding OSM back, people
don't want to potentially waste more time and effort if in the end it
will no longer be allowed in OSM's main DB.