[OSM-talk] Fwd: Re: collateral damage (was: What the license change is going to do to the map)

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

Anthony wrote:
>> OSM is not asking you whether you think you are allowed to trace
>> from Google.  It is telling you that as a community we don't want
>> you to trace from Google.
> 
> Yes. And it's telling me that by deleting contributions which have 
> absolutely nothing to do with my tracing from Google.

After admitting to tracing from Google imagery, you refused to tell 
which objects were involved. You left other members no choice - they had 
to take the prudent course of action. Had you been willing to 
collaborate, this could have been avoided.

You wish that, after reading you admitting to tracing from Google 
imagery, other contributors would accept your retraction and continue as 
if nothing happened - but it is not possible : your initial admission 
cast a shadow that other project members are not willing to bear.