On Sun, Jul 18, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Sami Dalouche <sko...@free.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I am a complete outsider regarding the licensing debate (and, to be > honest, to the whole OSM project... I barely started mapping a few > hiking trails).
Hi Sami, Welcome to OSM. We love mapping and hiking trails and beautiful cartography and sometimes we get caught up in other topics. > That being said, here is the main thing I wonder about : > > **Is the license change a real choice or a kind of legal obligation ?** > > The reason I ask is because, by looking at this thread, I feel like some > people view it as important, and others see how depressing it is for the > mapping community... But do we have the choice ? Some view it as important. Some enjoy vigorous discussion of any topic. ;-) I summarized the license upgrade process a while back. It aims to be a fife-minute introduction so you can decide how informed you want to be, or if you just want to go with the flow. http://weait.com/content/openstreetmap-license-change-progress Best regards, Richard _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
