Johann H. Addicks wrote: > I consider evolving licenses as evil blank cheques.
They are a necessary evil. And a necessary blankness. > Even if there is preamble saying "all future versions will be in the same > faith like this" a lot of contributors will feel that they are forced to > trust somebody they do not know so far as beginners. This might be repelling. It hasn't repelled enough people to stop GNU or Wikipedia succeeding. > Think about organisations that you ask for data and you show them a OSM- > license that says "license will change in the future without notice" Think about organizations that show you no licence. > Then even a PD-release would be easier, because then everybody knows that > there is nothing more coming you can ask for. This solves the problem by causing it immediately. ;-) - Rob.
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