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  • I’m not sure about the exact issues that seem to have caused a rift in the project

    Short summary from the back of my head: it turned out that Organic Maps is a for-profit company owned by two or three shareholders that considered the project as their property and not as a community project. They did a few intransparent moves like adding affiliate links or depending on a closed-source proprietary meta server.

    The community asked to democratize the project and turn it into a non-profit. One of the shareholders was open to this, the others weren’t and there have been a lot of internal conflicts between the shareholders.

    The public letter that resulted in the fork can be read here: https://openletter.earth/open-letter-to-organic-maps-shareholders-a0bf770c