On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 12:59 PM, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10 January 2011 22:57, Ian Dees <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi John, >> >> Please take this to a different mailing list. A license discussion does not >> belong on the dev list. > > This isn't a license discussion, this is a discussion of the technical > problems associated with the license change.
It's not a technical problem, it's a social problem. You're participating in a community project, and other people in the community want to contact you about things. Therefore they will, and that's a good thing. There's no technical problem to solve here. Although this is the dev list I'll suggest this - engage the community and your social problem might go away. You can use the "description" field in your user account to note that you aren't currently able to relicense all of your data. You could explain further the problems on your wiki user page. You could help other people by noting which licenses the data you are importing fall under ( see http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Import/Catalogue and search for "Importer will not reveal source or license"). You could use separate accounts for your imports and bot-like activity, as the guidelines suggest. In other words, solve the social problem by using social solutions. Anyway, I agree that this isn't a technical discussion (no code is going to be written to block these message from reaching you), so we could leave it there as far as this list is concerned. Cheers, Andy _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/dev
