[OSM-talk] Licensing Working Group

[andrzej zaborowski]

On 23 March 2011 11:37, Thomas Davie <tom.davie en gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm not sure this is the lie though.  The lie would be "zomg, not many users are accepting the ODbL"

I don't think that would be a lie.  "Much" or "little" are of course
fuzzy but I think here you have to use a sort of a logarithmic scale
and I hope the license change working group is going to use that scale
when/if they're deciding whether the moment is right to remove data
from the editable database.

7% or 45% or 62% are all insignificantly small if you think of the
amount of map data that remains incompatible.  Even 98% is
insignificantly small if this means that 2% of the userbase's data is
going to be dropped.  For the license change to not leave the project
dead, the number needs to be really close to 100% of the user
collected (i.e. not imported) data.  1% of a couple hunderds GB is
really a lot of data, 0.1% is still probably more than some of the
individual country extracts, and then 0.01% is probably an amount that
we could afford losing if everyone put a lot of effort in fixing the
breakage.

Cheers