Frederik has already corrected most of your misconceptions, so just some additional comments;
Am 09.06.2020 um 12:32 schrieb nd...@redhazel.co.uk: > > - Taking control from the original authors would slow down, if not > stall, the development of iD. > Nearly all of the original authors left Mapbox a long time ago, nobody working on it today is an "original author". The grant that Mapbox received at the time was clearly instrumental in allowing them to start growing the company to its current size, so while we are obviously thankful for the support that Mapbox has provided over the years, it was clearly a win-win situation. Many would have argued that the OSMF should have received the half a million dollars and contracted the work out, maybe to Mapbox, but in any case just because what actually happened was slightly different, doesn't mean that the OSMF and the OSM community gave whoever happens to be working on iD the licence to control the projects destiny forever. Simon
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