[OSM-talk] odbl

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

On Sun, Mar 6, 2011 at 8:45 AM, Joseph Reeves <iknowjoseph at gmail.com> wrote:
> There's a balance that
> needs to be struck, but people should understand that legal issues are
> core to OSM.
>
> If you want to contribute to a project and not ask questions about the
> legal issues concerning data you produce, you might as well sign up
> for Google Map Maker; I thought that OSM had this licensing issue at
> the heart of what we did, but I could be wrong.

Lots of things are central to OSM, like tagging, licensing, import
issues, geodata standards, usability and quality, editing conventions,
database issues, etc. And it's precisely the number of varied topics
that are important to OSM why we have specialized mailing lists: dev,
legal-talk, tagging, etc.

There are many people who are sick and tired of seeing email about
licenses and that's why they're on talk, not legal-talk. So if you
want to discuss license issues, then take the time to subscribe to
legal-talk and then unsubscribe when you are satisfied and never
(hopefully) be bothered again about it.