[OSM-talk] License/CT issues: Let's not punish the world's disadvantaged, pls.

[SteveC]

How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible?

Steve


On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:18 AM, 80n wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com <jaakko at helleranta.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> As I suggest in the subject line: I'd really love us not to punish the world's disadvantaged with our license/CT disagreements.
> 
> That's why fosm.org exists.  No data will get deleted.  It will continue to exist and can be updated at fosm.org.
> 
> If you are worried that your data is threatened then that's because you are now looking in the wrong place.  Fosm has more data than OSM already and will continue to sync with all OSM updates as well as accepting new updates directly.
> 
> OSM is not trying to punish anyone, its just that the community thinks that less data under a different license is better for them.  If you are happy with the way things were then you don't have to lose anything, just change your URL from osm.org to fosm.org.
> 
> 80n
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