[Foundation-l] help openstreetmap to translate their license ...

[rupert THURNER]

hi,

openstreetmap tries to switch to a new license:
http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/

one of the disadvantages of the license is that it does not exist e.g. in
german. what is the best strategy to get it in german as well? i am asking
because in switzerland 1% of the swiss osm data was provided by one
wikipedian who happened to also be mapper who was not able to agree to the
license for a very long time. just before the zürich meetup on saturday he
finally agreed. at the meetup he made clear that not having the license in
german was one of the main obstacles that he did not agree for so long.

if a mapper does not agree to the license change this would mean that his
data gets deleted (but i do not know if osm has a deadline for the license
change ...). deleting somebody's data in osm can be tricky as one has to
delete work of others as well which builds up on this persons changes. an
example is a street which got entered, and others adding details to it.

does wikimedia have some community which might be helpful with such an
issue?

rupert.