Stefan de Konink wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> 2) If we have nothing to hide (we don't), and especially given that >> nothing about OSM is anonymous, what's with this irrational insistence >> that anonymity is the standard all the sudden? Does OSM as a project >> even care or attempt to log who is receiving the data to begin with? > > To make things absolutely clear. If any new license will prohibit in any > way the distribution of the planet without signing or agreeing, this > bittorrent service will continue anyway as it is now.
That is no problem, as any future license can only govern any future planet files. A new license can not go back in time and say "every previous planet is illegal to distribute". To do that and to enforce that needs a whole lot of power, money and attorneys. IANAL, Maarten _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
