[OSM-talk] OpenStreetMap License Change Phase 3 Pre-Announcement

[Dermot McNally]

On 14 April 2011 19:12, andrzej zaborowski <balrogg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I see it logical.  Wanting to contribute to the currently biggest,
> most fun free map, with most impact on the industry and a name you got
> used to, you soon will have no choice other than to do so under then
> new CT because that free map is ruled by people in favor of it.  Yet
> the accept/decline buttons are your first chance to vote or express
> what you think about the switch if you want to have some say in this
> (quite important for the project) decision.  So use this chance, vote
> with your data as someone said at the beginning of the process.  This
> is also the only way left to find out what the mappers think.

Ah, but is it _your_ data? Or might you have built some of it on top
of mine? Or perhaps I built in good faith on a foundation you created.

So by all means state your opinion and by all means share your
opinions with other mappers. But if, once a consensus is clear, "The
Community" comes out in favour of the change, many of us will think
very ill of people who still choose to pull out the bottom brick from
the wall and go home. Because that's not the kind of community I've
had the privilege to belong to.

Dermot

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