Somehow I suspect that the proponents of "screw the future" (aka lets tie the hands of every future OSM contributor) simply don't have enough imagination.
For me it is a distinct possibility that in 10 years from now Nokia/here and Tomtom will be long gone, and only google and OSM will still be players at a global level (google likely heavily regulated and split in to multiple independent operations). We will have decreased the monetary value of raw, static, geo-data to zero and I expect that the days of restrictive licences for government geo-data will have gone for good in an attempt to to remain vaguely relevant. Google will be gobbling up everything it can get for free for sure. I have no idea what the OSM community will want to do then, but I do know that it is extremely short sighted to unnecessarily to bind them to something that, however reasonable it may be now, might be totally at odds with reality then.
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