On 16 April 2011 07:00, Elizabeth Dodd <[email protected]> wrote: > Why does the ODbL faction not start with a fork of ODbL compliant data? > Why do they need to force a split of the existing CC-by-SA data?
A lot of the differences of opinion on this matter are finding expression in the words people choose to use to describe the different points of view. I found your use of "faction" interesting enough to check some dictionary definitions of the word. Here's one I found particularly apt: 1. a group of people forming a minority within a larger body, esp a dissentious group So let's see which point of view ends up mainstream and which belongs to a dissenting minority. So far, as I look at the volume of map data, as I look at the vast majority of the people who have built and maintained the map and the infrastructure on which it runs, what I see is people who, sometimes with misgivings, are throwing their weight behind the licence change. Among such people I see unity of purpose. Opposition to the change seems to stem from a number of disparate of often contradictory reasons, none of which I personally find compelling. What I can not with any seriousness regard the opposition I have seen as is "the mainstream". It is on the anti-change side that I see not one faction, but several. Others may not (yet) share my view, and should observe the rate at which the remaining community votes yes and no. Nothing in this process will remove the freedom from anybody to continue to use the data already mapped exactly as they always have, nor to continue maintaining a data set under those terms. But if The Community should be seen to support the licence change, I will see it as irresponsible for individual mappers to take their ball and go home just because they can. Dermot -- -------------------------------------- Igaühel on siin oma laul ja ma oma ei leiagi üles _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
