On 23 March 2011 11:37, Thomas Davie <tom.da...@gmail.com> wrote: > I'm not sure this is the lie though. The lie would be "zomg, not many users > are accepting the ODbL"
I don't think that would be a lie. "Much" or "little" are of course fuzzy but I think here you have to use a sort of a logarithmic scale and I hope the license change working group is going to use that scale when/if they're deciding whether the moment is right to remove data from the editable database. 7% or 45% or 62% are all insignificantly small if you think of the amount of map data that remains incompatible. Even 98% is insignificantly small if this means that 2% of the userbase's data is going to be dropped. For the license change to not leave the project dead, the number needs to be really close to 100% of the user collected (i.e. not imported) data. 1% of a couple hunderds GB is really a lot of data, 0.1% is still probably more than some of the individual country extracts, and then 0.01% is probably an amount that we could afford losing if everyone put a lot of effort in fixing the breakage. Cheers _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
