Oh, so you are talking about a fork in an open source project. Of course I realised that you didn't really mean "death" but I thought you might mean that Liz Dodds and Talk-au were going to cut my nodes off. ;-)
I was under the impression that a certain amount of forking was encouraged in open source development. Better to have two happy projects with happy communities, each doing their own thing than one miserable one where all we do is talk hyperbollocks about how we are going to get ripped off and what a disaster it is going to be if data has to be deleted. PY On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 3:25 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 > -- Tel: +44(0) 7814 517 807 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
