I'm trying to understand where you see the line in the sand.

I assume you're talking about importing share-alike data specifically and
you're referring to the recent discussion started here [1]. While strictly
speaking ODbL data can be imported under today's CT's it may not be
compatible under tomorrow's so I think it's absolutely fair to warn folks
and encourage them to _not_ import ODbL or other share alike data. Maybe
you're referring to a different discussion though.

[1]
https://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/imports-us/2014-December/000641.html






On Tue, Dec 2, 2014 at 8:43 PM, Serge Wroclawski <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hey folks,
>
> I tried to make this clear in another thread, it seems something must
> have happened.
>
> While license discussions about OSM are important, and we all have our
> views and passions about them, I'd really like to avoid them here if
> possible.
>
> The reasons are several fold:
>
> 1. We have several places to talk about licenses, like the talk lists
> and the LWG
>
> 2. Relicensing OSM is outside the scope of the US, and outside the
> scope of imports[1]
>
> 3. They're really inflammatory
>
> The caveat for [1] is this discussion about reciprocal licenses. I
> actually brought it up in Birmingham. I think it's an interesting
> idea, but it's something to discuss at the Foundation level.
>
> We obviously need to discuss local data licenses, but I'd really like
> to avoid a lot of license advocacy if at all possible, just to keep
> things from flaming up, which seems to always happen during license
> discussions.
>
> - Serge
>
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