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Introducing the CoMaps Logo!
(lemmy.nz)
Cooperative community open-source fork of Organic Maps, an offline privacy-respecting not-for-profit OpenStreetMap GPS app for your phone.
Can some1 pls give me a tldrd (too long didnt read drama) of the organic maps vs copmaps situation?
OrganicMaps is tied to a small for-profit business.
Few people wrote an open letter asking for guarantees on the freedom of the project. It was overlooked.
Then the project was forked.
Few people or a few people?
Yes.
A few, but they are also few.
While portraying Organic Maps as a community-driven project, shareholders were making decisions behind closed doors - a Kayak ad affiliate link was added, parts of the open-source code was hidden, and shareholders are leaving the door open for selling the company and pocketing profit from contributor work (this would likely go the unfortunate route of Maps.Me).
I don't get it either. I use organic maps as my main map thing, and I don't get what happens here. It just works.