[OSM-talk] OSM France "BANO" project... openaddresses in France

[Jean-Marc Liotier]

On 16/05/2014 11:03, Simon Poole wrote:
> Somehow I suspect that the proponents of "screw the future" (aka lets
> tie the hands of every future OSM contributor) simply don't have enough
> imagination. [..]

That is one way to look at it. Others might rather see it as preventing 
our community assets being hijacked by a future manipulator. But this 
horse has been beaten to death already - GPL vs. BSD redux all over 
again... We'll have to agree to disagree.

As it stands now, there is nothing that prevents anyone from 
contributing ODbL-licensed data into an ODbL-licensed database. One 
could even remark that receiving contributions of ODbL-licensed data is 
a significant goal of an ODbL-licensed database...

If at some point in the future the OSMF decides to change the license 
and gets a 2/3 majority approval vote of active contributors, then other 
things will happen. Meanwhile we shall use the ODbL to the full extent 
of its ability to protect our community assets.