Am 6 Dec 2009 um 8:59 hat Apollinaris Schoell geschrieben: > > > > Since some people feel about the vote like being held hostage with a gun > > to their head somebody should solve their dilemma. Fork now and everybody > > that might compelled to vote yes for fear to lose their data can vote no > > and know they have a new project that has all the data but does not > > ignore their objections. > > Why should somebody solve their dilemma?
Good question, but I had not assumed that somebody should do it for them. Only if somebody of the protestors did start a fork, the whole diskussion would be mote. Nobody could complain any longer he was coerced. The community would probably split but it would not the first project where a fork would be healthy for the common good. I don't think there could be to much databases of geographic data with a more or less free license. Maybe a split would slow the growth of OSM, but would that really matter. > These people must do that themselves. It's easy to complain but will > any of them have the energy, time, funding to setup such a project? You are correct they must do that themselves. Klaus Leiss . _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
