How will fosm (assuming it reaches the stage of being functional) continue to sync with OSM when the licenses are incompatible?
Steve On Jun 22, 2011, at 11:18 AM, 80n wrote: > On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Jaakko Helleranta.com > <jaa...@helleranta.com> wrote: > > > As I suggest in the subject line: I'd really love us not to punish the > world's disadvantaged with our license/CT disagreements. > > That's why fosm.org exists. No data will get deleted. It will continue to > exist and can be updated at fosm.org. > > If you are worried that your data is threatened then that's because you are > now looking in the wrong place. Fosm has more data than OSM already and will > continue to sync with all OSM updates as well as accepting new updates > directly. > > OSM is not trying to punish anyone, its just that the community thinks that > less data under a different license is better for them. If you are happy > with the way things were then you don't have to lose anything, just change > your URL from osm.org to fosm.org. > > 80n > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk Steve stevecoast.com _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
