Kate, I appreciate your dislike of all the worry about the license, and I agree with it. My biggest take-away from being on the Open Source Initiative board of directors for 13 years was that: community matters; licenses don't. So here we have a situation where 20% of the people think it's really important to change the license; 20% think it's really important to NOT change the license; and the majority doesn't care.
As usual, the majority is right, and the minority (both 20%'s!) are wrong. The question that we need to worry about is not the legal terms of the license, but instead: will changing the license hurt the community more than leaving it alone. I'm not sure anybody but me is worrying about that. Note that I've written two paragraphs without saying "data" once? That's because the data separated from the community is like a corpse separated from its life. It gets stinky pretty quickly. Both of the 20%ers worry too much about the data. The important part is the mapping, not the data! So I highly encourage everybody EVERYBODY to shut up, pay less attention to the licensing, and map. -- --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
