Hi, wer-ist-roger wrote: > But we could lose even more! The ones that don't agree on the change might > start a fork and that would be the worst thing that could happen.
That's why we talk to each other before taking the next step. If people feel rushed or left out then they are likely to fork; if we work hard to include as many people as possible - sometimes a symbolic gesture is enough to make people feel that their concerns are heard, sometimes the wording of the license needs to be adapted -, then we might just get this through. > And one more thing. How can we be sure that the coming up license suites the > project? I don't want to have this discussion in 3 years again. The ODbL has a provision for automatic upgrades to later versions. It is currently unclear (a) who decides what a "later version" is, (b) whether we can convince everybody to trust them enough, and (c) how we can be sure that *if* we require a change to the license, a matching "later version" will be provided by them. But if these things are sorted out then we should be reasonably safe... Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
