The current board only consists of 3 people: Roman (@rtsisyk), Viktor (@vng), and Alexander (@biodranik). Major decisions can’t be made if only 1 person objects.
None of it is “that bad”. However its understandable if contributors want to separate out and have a more open governance.
As long as they keep the licenses open where both projects can pick and choose. Some forks do so “maliciously” and change licenses to prevent upstream from pulling changes back.
What induced the fork? Out of the loop, apparently.
Here’s an open letter to the Organic Maps Shareholders with the most info:
https://www.comaps.app/news/2025-04-16/1/
Which is referenced in the article here:
https://news.itsfoss.com/organic-maps-fork-comaps/
And discussed on the OpenSource community here:
https://lemmy.world/post/30461779
Basically some drama went down between the devs.
Edit: ‘to’ the shareholders, not from
As long as the kayak links can’t personally identify the user, I don’t see any issue with this.
Setting up a nonprofit is hard. You can setup an LLC and run it like a nonprofit
Honestly none of that seems all that bad. Unless they start actively doing something very harmful I don’t see any reason not to use Organic maps.
None of it is “that bad”. However its understandable if contributors want to separate out and have a more open governance.
As long as they keep the licenses open where both projects can pick and choose. Some forks do so “maliciously” and change licenses to prevent upstream from pulling changes back.
Honestly, I think it’s premature - Organic Maps isn’t down the drain yet. But I’m also not 100% up to date. You can see most of the context here and in the open letter linked within: https://community.openstreetmap.org/t/organic-maps-open-letter/128851