Hi, Richard Fairhurst wrote: > There's three categories to consider relating to existing data.
> 1. People who have made edits and can't be contacted. > 2. People who don't like ODbL and withdraw their data. > 3. Large organisations. I have a fourth category to add: 4. People who don't dislike ODbL per se but dislike the manner in which it was brought about, and thus feel rushed/excluded. People who make sensible suggestions for improvement but see their suggestions brushed away or simply ignored because this would just delay the license release (which seems to be planned for 28th March), or people who have legitimate concerns and find them answered with an "I don't know" from the legal counsel and an "we'll press ahead anyway" from OSMF. Having a proper process that takes our project members and their concerns seriously, rather than holding a gun to their heads and saying "agree to this license or go away", is not only important for keeping as much data as possible, it is also, in my eyes, a requirement of project ethics. I can live with some data being lost. But I would like to avoid press headlines like "20% of OpenStreetMap members quit over license row / Disgruntled mappers say they feel ignored / Fake SteveC: 'Crisis? What Crisis?'" - I think *that* kind of thing would hurt us more than having to redraw a few villages. Bye Frederik _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk