Russ Nelson wrote: > Unless somebody has a theory under which there will be more mappers > suing more users, the only rational conclusion can be that the license > change will hurt OSM, and not help it at all.
I wonder why you believe that the only way a license change can possibly help OSM is by allowing us to sue more users of our data. Personally, I don't want to sue anyone. However, I want to unambiguously have the right to publish an OSM based map that doesn't provide attribution for every single mapper. I also consider improved compatibility with other licenses for produced works a welcome benefit. And I'm almost certain that the legal and social environment in which we operate will change during the next decades, so it would be nice to be able to react to them by modifying the terms under which we publish our maps; preferably without losing orders of magnitudes more data than we might now. Some also think that the shift of share-alike from works onto data makes sense, and I think that they have good arguments for that position. Clearly, there are a lot of advantages provided by the CT+ODbL that have nothing at all to do with legal action against our users. Tobias Knerr _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
