On 18 July 2010 20:31, Frederik Ramm <frede...@remote.org> wrote: > Is it totally hopeless to contact these contributors and ask them for their > agreement?
It kind of rubs me the wrong way when anyone brings up problems and the first response (and usually the only one) is to always fob off the work and expect those effected the most to be doing all the leg work to clean up the mess this license change over is causing or going to cause. Especially when the new Contributor Terms aren't even attribution or share alike compatible, which means that only CC0/PD and relicensed data will be compatible. Beyond the government imported data in Australia (about 1/4 to 1/3rd the current data) we also have Nearmap Aerial imagery, while they might agree with ODBL, they may not agree with Contributor Terms, at present their terms explicitly state derived data can only be licensed under cc-by-sa, they have been asked about ODBL and may agree to it but they haven't commented about the contributor terms, I sent them an email about this but I'm waiting to hear back. If they balk at either that would mean everything mapped from their imagery, which in several rural and regional areas is considerable, would disappear as well. This is before we figure out how much other data won't be transferred across due to non-responses or people that disagree with the new license. I can't see this ending well, it'll completely devastate and demoralise the Australian community. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
