[OSM-talk] Community important, license unimportant
John Smith
deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 03:04:08 BST 2011
On 16 June 2011 04:54, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
> As usual, the majority is right, and the minority (both 20%'s!) are
> wrong. The question that we need to worry about is not the legal terms
> of the license, but instead: will changing the license hurt the
> community more than leaving it alone. I'm not sure anybody but me is
> worrying about that.
There is one other thing to worry about as well, going ahead how much
faith will people have in the OSM-F board.
> So I highly encourage everybody EVERYBODY to shut up, pay less
> attention to the licensing, and map.
I wish it were that simple, for the longest time we were told to be
careful of the sources of data we import from, now it seems it doesn't
matter how murky the data is as long as people sign up to the new CTs.
Many long term contributors have left, both because of the current
process, how it's being handled and all the unanswered questions, they
don't want to map if their work is going to be for nothing.
In Brisbane, Qld there was a regular mapping party each month, that
hadn't missed a month in about 13ish months but there hasn't been a
mapping party in the last 6 months because of all this nonsense.
I could keep going, but the community has already been gutted to a large extent.
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