John Whelan wrote: >I've been a little selective in quoting your message but I think you have > correctly identified the split. Germany and the UK with high mapper > density > are probably for the new license and dumping the older data other parts of > the world that don't have the luxury of such a high density of mappers and > rely on partnerships with government agencies etc and importing data are > finding it much more difficult.
I don't wish to suppress debate at all, but I think a number of recent messages here have implied that the Licence Working Group intend to take a cavalier attitude and would be willing to see half the world disappear from the map. I think they have made it quite clear that is not the case. I recommend you read "Some supporting notes" and "License Working Group's position on when to change over to ODbL": http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan/Phase_2_-_Existing_Contributor_Voluntary_Re-licensing_Program#Some_supporting_notes Perhaps the key quote is: "We will not do anything wild and crazy that could kill the project". Please, let's at least assume good faith. David -- View this message in context: http://gis.638310.n2.nabble.com/New-site-about-the-license-change-tp5735946p5743552.html Sent from the General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
