Dont see that as necessarily bad. If there is a fundamental difference in ideologies/beliefs of members, I think the project, in the longer term is better served by a split. Neither do I see it as a setback, its more like a step backward to take many steps forward for each of the splits.
Regards, Shalabh On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Peter Childs <pchi...@bcs.org> wrote: > 2009/12/11 paul youlten <paul.youl...@gmail.com>: > > Peter, > > > > That sounds bad. Can you give us some examples? > > > > PY > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:47 PM, Peter Childs <pchi...@bcs.org> wrote: > >> 2009/12/11 paul youlten <paul.youl...@gmail.com>: > >>> Dave, > >>> > >>> Clearly all those things, and much more, can and should be mapped. > >>> They can all be seen on the street and they all have public access. I > >>> agree: "If it's a physical entity then it can be mapped." ++ > >>> > >>> What is less clear is what happens if changing the licence means we > >>> lose "invisible" administrative boundaries and data from areas where > >>> public access is difficult, restricted or non-existent. > >>> > >>> For example would be nice to include the boundaries of a UK National > >>> Park or a site of special scientific interest or (dare I say it) the > >>> coastline of Australia - but I don't think it is a "disaster" that > >>> threatens the future of the project if these things are removed > >>> because of a change in the licence. > >>> > >>> PY > >>> > >> > >> From having seen it in quite a few Open Source projects, it would be a > >> death sentence. > >> > > Hmm Maybe these have not all died but the split did cause serious damage. > > X (You now have a choice of X.org and XFree86), The split caused a > long halt in development and the original is hardly used now, only the > branch.... > > Joomla/Mambo > > I'm sure there are others > > Peter. > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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