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

[Steve Coast]

Why do you feel you have a liability?

Steve

On 6/22/2011 4:29 PM, David Murn wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 13:49 -0700, Steve Coast wrote:
>
>> Personally I hope as soon as possible. I suspect it will be nice to
>> give you 'no' guys some time to reconsider, as some already have.
> Such a pity you dont extend the same feelings to those 'yes guys' who
> wish to change their acceptance.  Except that changing from no to yes is
> generally upto the mapper, those who wish to change the other way are
> trying to protect themselves and the OSM project from liability.  Surely
> with the whole purpose of the licence change being to purge any
> non-compatible data, these requests should be taken seriously, not in
> the way they generally have been, with refusal.
>
> David
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