Simone Cortesi schrieb: > On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:59, Florian Lohoff <[email protected]> wrote: >> I hereby request that the OSMF publishes a full (including history) >> Database Dump just prior deleting non ODbL relicensed data to allow >> a forking of OpenStreetmap under the old licensing terms. > > There already is a plan for a complete dump (with history). This will > not happen tomorrow. Because we are not going to change the licence > anyday this month. > > I'm really hoping that nobody will effectively go on with a fork of the > project. > > The strenght of OpenStreetMap is in its community. We dont need a second one.
I agree that forking the project would be ugly. However - the strength of OSM is *not* in the OSMF or the LWG. If the OSMF thinks it has to tell the mappers out there what they have to do (and accepting a license change "by force" is definitely one of this), this is the point in time to think about the OSMF. The current OSMF behaviour as it appears to me is: "We're the good guys, you can trust us, so shut up and go on mapping". Is this still a free and open project if we follow this road? No, it's a project with a steering committee where you can become a member of the committee for a royalty fee. Regards, ULFL _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
