Am 08.08.2010 09:03, schrieb Russ Nelson: > SteveC writes: > > As in, why is the PD camp so loud here? > > First and foremost, because we believe that all the licensing > kerfluffle will frighten people away from using the map. Because we > all want a map that will actually be USED by the most people possible. > Because we aren't afraid of forks (people who fork, fork themselves > hardest). Because if somebody "steals" parts of the map, we will be > able to tell, and won't hesitate to point it out. Because nobody can > own public domain data; not even somebody who wishes they could slap a > copyright on it and claim it as their own. Because the ODbL and > CC-By-SA impose a cost on the community. I mean, if we're going to > get rid of contributors on purpose, then at least let's get rid of the > people who think a reciprocal license solves a problem. > > The OSM strength of OSM is not the data; it's the people. The license > doesn't protect the people; the people protect the people. Nobody can > can steal, fork, clone, or whatever, our community. > > Data is dead; people are alive. Let's worry more about the people than > the license on the data.
Plus, with the user base OSM has, it will be more current than any (commercial) fork, and a moving target to keep syncing to. I'm still strongly in favor of letting old edits time out to CC0/PD in a timeframe of 3-5 years. That kind of map data is *really* old, why try to slap an arbitrary license on it? -- Dirk-Lüder "Deelkar" Kreie Bremen - 53.0901°N 8.7868°E Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.
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