A fork as stipulated is not necessarily about a group of people leaving OSM , but about
we (OSM) deciding to continue in two or more future directions covered by different licenses, and maybe finally decide which license fits best. This would require the OSM database to include a extra field for each and every item indicating the license the data was provided by its contributor. The license choice can be made in the users profile. For most of OSM there is no difference. The license is only relevant once data is extracted to external parties. External parties will therefore always know under what license any node and any way of the database had been granted to them. The map server and most applications at would remain as they are. We may however create a second and or more maps showing only the data from specific licenses and enabling OSM-ers to evaluate the consequences of their choices. I think this is the only way to solve this everlasting and destructive license discussion. It requires however, some flexibility of mind, and the trust that OSM will not abuse the choice made by its contributors. As the database and the license field will be visible to all of us, I trust that will be not a major problem. Gert Gremmen ----------------------------------------------------- Openstreetmap.nl (alias: cetest) P Before printing, think about the environment. Van: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Namens 80n Verzonden: Monday, August 23, 2010 5:17 PM Aan: [email protected] CC: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Let's prepare to Fork OSM to a CCBYSA 2.0continuation On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 3:21 PM, M∡rtin Koppenhoefer <[email protected]> wrote: 2010/8/23 Michael Kugelmann <[email protected]>: > BTW: @Felix Hartmann > using words like >> >> so fuck off. > > shows that you don't have arguments. So step back - defamation is alsways a > sign of weakness. Learn a good conduct before you continues with the > discussion. to be fair: he didn't write (others) should f**k off, what he meant was "clearly state this somewhere and tell everyone else to fuck off". Thus I agree that this might not be adequate language, you shouldn't critisize him for that, probably he wasn't aware because English is not his primary language. On the argument I agree though: make your own mailing lists for your fork. It's probably OK to announce it here (with an URL where to go, which was actually missing in your announcement), but further discussions should then be brought to the place of your fork, not inside the resources of OSM. I also agree it would be absurd to have OSM handle over the account data of its contributors (and is against almost any privacy law at least in Europe). There is also no logics in that: people who want to can simply create a new account with their old credentials on the fork site (I'm not planning to join the fork, but if I was I surely wouldn't use the same pw I used for OSM). There is absolutely no need for OSM to relinquish any private account data. No fork will ever need that data and I doubt that any fork would even bother asking OSM for it.
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