Hi, John Smith wrote:
public static void main(String[] args) { System.out.println("OSM is a community. Perhaps some of the community wants to be proactive about the license change."); }What about the proactive community against the license change, or don't they/their views count?
They did two years ago. Now that the license change is agreed on, they are of course free to think whatever they want, but the most likely effect of anti-ODbL-campaigning is that more data is lost. You can mince words all you like, but in practice, keeping someone from agreeing to the contributor terms is like logging on to OSM and deleting their data. Naturally this is not an activity that most of us like to see.
If, for example, you were to use the user-to-user messaging system to try and talk other people *out* of agreeing to ODbL, I would very much hope that your account was banned ASAP.
That's not because one view counts and one doesn't; it's because one view is detrimental to the project and the other isn't.
Even if ODbL was a bad or unsuitable license, being anti-ODbL would still be detrimental to the project because the choice of adopting ODbL has been made.
The most sensible thing for someone who is firmly against ODbL but who wants OSM to survive, would be to campaign for election to the board and then take it from there. But that would entail a lot of work, and people skills, and giving one's real name, so it's not for everybody.
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