On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 2:23 PM, Robert Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:
> John Smith schrieb: > > For anyone still fence sitting over the new contributor terms and the >> ODBL this is what you have to look forward to in the near future: >> >> >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/legal-talk/2010-August/003908.html >> > > Don't fight his conclusion, but his "if" in that sentence: |If imports now, > in addition, start to become a corset that limits our choices with regards > to where the project should be going, then it is *high time* to get rid of > them completely.| > > He has a point in that anything limiting our choice of where we are going > is something we need to closely inspect. And if we want to change the > direction os OSM, that surely has some cost, even to the point of excluding > some data. That needs to be clear. We need to think about the "if"s and not > the conclusions there. > Who's talking about changing the direction of OSM? There's no consensus for any change of direction that I'm aware of. Arguing that imports should not be allowed because there *might* be change in direction is very presumptuous. > Let's go "what if" and weigh the grand outcomes logically, not not fight > over some people pointing out some details of some possible outcome. > > > If these people were serious about making a PD set of map data they >> would start their own project rather than foisting their morals and >> agendas on the rest of us. >> > > Offending them doesn't help either. We are still ONE community in ONE > project, we should put all our heads together and find common ground instead > of trying to fight against each other and dividing this great community. > I have seen some dividing fights in other communities, but real progress > only really came around when people finally worked together on common > ground. > > Robert Kaiser > > > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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