On 7/7/2011 9:37 PM, James Andrewartha wrote:
On 8 July 2011 11:26, SteveC<[email protected]> wrote:
This reads like you disagree with taxation or death. I do too, but there's not
much I can do about it. The vast majority of people are happy with where we are
at and now it's down to people holding out because of a comma in the wrong
place or a moral objection to various aspects of intellectual property law.
While I agree that it's not perfect, I don't see how it's reasonable to throw
everything away for one guy who doesn't like his countries laws.
Unless you have a reasonable solution or I have misunderstood?
I am quite happy with my country's laws, which don't include database
right, and don't want to promote such a concept.
Right, and I agree with you. But, stopping contributing to OSM or not
helping the project as a whole by refusing to move license with the rest
of us is a poor way of protesting the promotion of these concepts. I
don't like them either, but here we are. It would be difficult and
complicated to carve out exceptions just for you or just for Australia.
What do you mean by throw everything away? Who is throwing what away?
I mean throw away the efforts of all the licensing work we've done
because one guy doesn't like technical detail X or has moral objection
Y. That is, that we have spent many man years on this and there is no
way to make everyone happy. We tried hard and it's time to move on.
Also, once we're switched it's much easier to make the kind of fixes you
want as subsequent switches are orders of magnitude more easy. Thus,
lets put our minor differences aside and work for the greater goals we
have, like mapping the world.
Steve
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