On 16/05/2014 11:03, Simon Poole wrote:
Somehow I suspect that the proponents of "screw the future" (aka lets tie the hands of every future OSM contributor) simply don't have enough imagination. [..]
That is one way to look at it. Others might rather see it as preventing our community assets being hijacked by a future manipulator. But this horse has been beaten to death already - GPL vs. BSD redux all over again... We'll have to agree to disagree.
As it stands now, there is nothing that prevents anyone from contributing ODbL-licensed data into an ODbL-licensed database. One could even remark that receiving contributions of ODbL-licensed data is a significant goal of an ODbL-licensed database...
If at some point in the future the OSMF decides to change the license and gets a 2/3 majority approval vote of active contributors, then other things will happen. Meanwhile we shall use the ODbL to the full extent of its ability to protect our community assets.
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