Anthony
The reason we have a hostile relationship is because of all your
spamming and trolling. You were kicked from the legal list, the only
person I'm aware of to have managed that.
I suspect the real reason you want a nice relationship is funding and
other benefits we've worked hard for, while refusing to help with the
community process to switch licenses.
At this point really the positive gestures need to come from you, for
example helping us switch so we can all (including FOSM) move on.
Steve
On 7/8/2011 6:23 AM, Anthony wrote:
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 2:24 AM, Steve Coast<st...@asklater.com> wrote:
I mean throw away the efforts of all the licensing work we've done because
one guy doesn't like technical detail X or has moral objection Y. That is,
that we have spent many man years on this and there is no way to make
everyone happy. We tried hard and it's time to move on. Also, once we're
switched it's much easier to make the kind of fixes you want as subsequent
switches are orders of magnitude more easy. Thus, lets put our minor
differences aside and work for the greater goals we have, like mapping the
world.
I for one think a partnership between FOSM and OSMF would be a great
thing. We *are* both trying to map the world. I've made this
invitation before but I'd like to make it again: Work with us to help
preserve, and keep up to date, the CC-BY-SA data which otherwise would
be left to rot in a static "final dump". If you believe, as you say,
that CC-BY-SA might work out the problems (which you say are minor) in
the 4.0 license, then you'll be especially glad you have FOSM to help
you switch back.
There's no reason that FOSM and OSMF have to have a hostile
relationship. We're both trying to map the world, under the license
we deem most appropriate.
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