On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 7:58 AM, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote:
> Simon, > Andreas, > all, > > when discussing these things with the person who goes by the pseudonym of > "John Smith", keep in mind that he is spending a lot of time > building/supporting an OpenStreetMap "fork". > > The forkers, as I like to call them, are driven by all kinds of > motivations, the most benign probably being a sincere worry about data loss > - they believe that the license change is going to hurt OSM so much that > they must do all they can do retain a live copy of the "old OSM", or even > dissuade OSMF from changing altogether. > Frederik, I'm sure you've been paying attention an know full well that the reason fosm.org exists is because we have grave concerns about the new license. The only thing we are forking is the license, we are not forking the tagging scheme or the community or even the objectives of OSM. Data loss is your problem not ours. I see people doing thought experiments about how they can get around the wishes of contributors who have, in good faith, provided their content under the CC license. Those people who have not agreed to the CT have not consented for their content to be used in any other way. You should respect that. A main objective of OSM was to create maps that were free enough to be used by everyone. Anything that steps across the line will taint OSM with the impurity that we strived for so long to avoid. There will forever be doubt about the provenance of OSM data. 80n
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