[OSM-talk] New site about the license change

davespod osmlists at dellams.fastmail.fm
Tue Nov 16 12:03:01 GMT 2010


John Whelan wrote:

>I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have
> correctly identified the split.  Germany and the UK with high mapper
> density
> are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of
> the world that don't have the luxury of such a high density of mappers and
> rely on partnerships with government agencies etc and importing data are
> finding it much more difficult.

I don't wish to suppress debate at all, but I think a number of recent
messages here have implied that the Licence Working Group intend to take a
cavalier attitude and would be willing to see half the world disappear from
the map. I think they have made it quite clear that is not the case. I
recommend you read "Some supporting notes" and "License Working Group's
position on when to change over to ODbL":

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan/Phase_2_-_Existing_Contributor_Voluntary_Re-licensing_Program#Some_supporting_notes

Perhaps the key quote is: "We will not do anything wild and crazy that could
kill the project". 

Please, let's at least assume good faith.

David
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