On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 2:45 PM, Ulf Möller <use...@ulfm.de> wrote: > 80n schrieb: > > What percentage of data would other people feel willing to see sacrificed >> in order to move forward with the new license? >> > > Judging from the discussions at various places, loosing data seems to be > the main concern with the new license. > > I think a longer transition period would help to alleviate that concern. > We've had CC-BY-SA licensed planet files for several years now, so adding > another year - while dual-licensing all new contributions - wouldn't seem to > cause much damage. > > If the contributions from users who don't agree to the new license were to > remain in the database for some time, but be marked as legacy data (and > perhaps shown in a particularly ugly color in the editors), mappers can > replace that data as part of their regular mapping and data verification > activities. >
We know that the appearance of rendered data is a very strong influence. I would consider this to be a totally unacceptable way of making people agree to a new license. > > I believe in that way most of the old data would be replaced within a just > few months without causing much disruption. >
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