On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, John Smith wrote: > 2009/12/5 Liz <[email protected]>: > > Only those who belonged to OSMF in Oct 09 will get a vote. Those who are > > 'merely' contributors will only get to be asked if they will relicense > > their data or not. Only data from people who agree to relicensing will go > > forward into the new licence. > > I wonder if this will be the final straw that leads to the data being > forked. > > There generally seems to be 2 camps in most debates like this, you > have the idealists, and the pragmatists.... eg Debian=idealists, > Ubuntu=Pragmatists. > > I'm generally not that overly concerned with the rest of the world, > but will be really upset with how this will push Australia backwards, > the ABS data and other datasets recently released by the verious > Australian governments has been very good in helping to push things > forward in low denisty areas and there is a lot of data that will just > up and vanish if they enforce this. > > I'm not an OSMF member and have been getting more and more annoyed > with the way things are headed by the idealists. > > I have the resources (hardware/bandwidth) at my disposal to do > something if I absolutely have to about Australia. I am really hoping > it won't need to come to that outcome because it will fork resources > considerably as the camps diverge.
I too am seeing a fork in Australia as a result of this. _______________________________________________ Talk-au mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-au
