On Apr 20, 2020, at 2:02 AM, Jiri Vlasak <[email protected]> wrote:
> +1. I feel that "contributors" should stay in the credit.
+1 here, as well. I correctly and not with excessive overt pride sit up a bit
straighter and feel a sense of community, satisfaction and even dignity every
time I see "contributors" in OSM's copyright statement. ("That's millions of
us doing good work because we love this kind of mapping, including ME!") This
recognition is important. This is one of the best reasons I contribute to our
map and I am certain that I'm not alone in these feelings. (For every +1 you
see here, there are hundreds, thousands, I'm pretty sure millions that you
don't see).
Sure, the results are a darn good map which gets better every hour of every
day. But crediting "contributors" is a critical component of that happening.
Remove it and you remove my sense of belonging to this mapping community, so,
the growing chant from the masses should be clear: don't do that. Changing
the rules (licensing, recognition, rights...) in the middle of the journey is
the quickest way to discourage more of us to drop out of this fine project.
SteveA
California
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