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

[Elizabeth Dodd]

On Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:29:29 +0100
Dermot McNally <dermotm at gmail.com> wrote:

> This licence change now gives every mapper the means of undermining
> the map through withholding of their own data, once freely given and
> now very likely a foundation of data created by other mappers, also in
> good faith. I understand that many mappers feel they _can't_ relicense
> some or all of their work, and that's a really tough situation. But
> mappers who just plain _won't_ agree to leave their data in, even
> though there is no legal obstacle to it, should strongly consider
> whether they are being true to the community they claim to be a part
> of.

Please consider the corollary to this

Why does the ODbL faction not start with a fork of ODbL compliant data?
Why do they need to force a split of the existing CC-by-SA data?