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

[John Smith]

On 24 June 2011 01:41, Robert Scott <lists at humanleg.org.uk> wrote:
> So because people have decided to start a voluntary project, they have to be answerable to absolutely everybody... everywhere... ever? No matter how unreasonable or logically warped they are (no names mentioned)? Everyone gets a veto on everything. Right?

Every open source project I can think of has a fixed set of principals
by which the code will be licensed under, and the license defines the
sort of people that will join and help out, those requiring you to
sign your rights away are usually typical of commercial projects, not
open source ones.

It's rare for projects to switch licenses once they've become
established, otherwise you risk a fork splitting what community there
is up.