Duane,
I wonder how Frederik is going to rationalise having the Kosovo
information removed,
I haven't made a statement about the Kosovo information. I'm sure that
whoever has imported it has made sure it would be compatible with future
license changes as suggested on the imports Wiki page for ages.
The license change is not my personal hobby so I'm surprised you should
single me out in the way you do, even using my name in message subjects.
I'm sorry if I should have hurt your feelings by pointing out that
Nearmap-derived data is only a minuscle part of OSM as a whole; I think
that it is important to refer to facts once in a while when emotions run
high.
Removing data that is incompatible with our license is something we do
almost every day. People accidentally import batches of "noncommercial"
data - sure it hurts to remove it but should we change our license to
"noncommercial" just to keep it? People in Germany have traced tons of
buildings from sources that were incompatible with out license, and we
removed them. Sometimes those who did the work left the project as a
consequence because they felt that we shouldn't take legal issues so
seriously.
I don't think that there is data in OSM that is so precious that we need
to risk OSM's future just to be able to hold on to that data.
Anyway I hear there's an excellent group of people planning a
"continuity fork" so any data OSM cannot continue to use would be safe
with them.
Bye
Frederik
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