Ed, On 01/10/2012 08:22 PM, Ed Avis wrote:
I joined OSM to help make a free Creative Commons (or compatible) map of the world
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I really don't want to just give up and go home unless every possibility has been exhausted. It is not too late.
What you really should do is first agree to the Contributor Terms and *then* continue working, from within OSM, towards a future compatibility with whatever CC license seems most suitable. I think it would be a good idea for OSM(F) to take an active role in Creative Commons' deliberations leading to their future 4.0 set of licenses provided we have the manpower for that.
Holding back your agreement and essentially forcing people to re-map those of your contributions they consider valuable - and they will have to start with that *now*, not in three months - is not a good basis for your future involvement in this process.
I don't think there's anybody here who believes that no CC license will ever be suitable for OSM. Personally I would not be surprised if we should change to a CC license in two or three years time. The contributor terms give us the option of doing that in a relatively painless way and without data loss.
For this to happen, we need people in OSM who know about the licenses, who care about the project, and who want to help shape its future.
You could be one of them. Or you could give up and go home. Bye Frederik -- Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33" _______________________________________________ Talk-GB mailing list Talk-GB@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk-gb
