@bean I totally get that spirit and intentionality.
Which is only made more poignant by onX is acting.
Even if it was the spirit of every contributor, a re-licensing requires their consent.
Even among already free and open source software, it is unacceptable for a new party to unilaterally relicense others' contributions.
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Just learned about https://openbeta.io/@devnull yeah, it's messy. And I'm mixed feelings on the whole matter. I don't think the scraping is completely unencumbered, but onX is gross to be asserting such claims on the user contributed content.
Someone shared with me https://12ft.io/https://www.climbing.com/news/mountain-project-openbeta-and-the-fight-over-climbing-data-access/ as well for background. -
Just learned about https://openbeta.io/There is a lot of neat stuff about this #OpenBeta platform, but already I'm sad to see that they are scraping other platforms and appear to be relicensing the content to CC0.
Their discord is full of discussion where they debate whether that's even legal.
So, I'll be avoiding OpenBeta for now.
Even if there are paid features, it seems https://www.mountainproject.com is the active community.