Frederik Ramm writes: > We're not "sacrificing countries". We saw that we have built our project > on (legal) sand,
Nonsense. Your choice of what to tag and how to tag it is a creative choice. You own that expression of the idea of a map. There is no reason for you to wait to sue somebody for infringing your copyright. If you aren't willing to do it now, why should we believe that you're going to do it once the license has changed. If you aren't willing to sue somebody once the license has changed, then why in God's name do you want a different license? Changing the license is very expensive and brings with it zero practical benefit. Or, to misquote Charlie Sheen, "Duh, Losing!" Let me say this again: anybody who defends the license change should be able to name an infringer whom they aren't suing because the license stops them, and should be able to outline their plan for suing the infringer. The plan should include the infringed portion of the work and the funding source for the legal team. On the bright side, the sooner we stop trying to change the license, the less OSM will be damaged, and the sooner we can heal the community. -- --my blog is at http://blog.russnelson.com Crynwr supports open source software 521 Pleasant Valley Rd. | +1 315-600-8815 Potsdam, NY 13676-3213 | Sheepdog _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
