<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2010 10:23, Kevin Peat <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin@kevinpeat.com">kevin@kevinpeat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 25 August 2010 08:41, Frederik Ramm <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:frederik@remote.org" target="_blank">frederik@remote.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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It is bad enough if the share-alike minority force their will on the rest of the project now; we must not allow them to force their will on everybody who is in OSM in 10 years' time.<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br></div>I find this oft-repeated argument to be totally bogus. It's like saying that I shouldn't paint my house because the person who owns it in 10 years time might not like it.<br><br>If OSMers in 2020 don't like the license they are free to change it or to start a new project just as people are today. We should make a decision on what seems like the best choice as we see it today not what someone may want in 10 years time.<br>
<br>I am quite happy for OSMF to have the power to upgrade to newer versions of ODBL as the license matures to save all this hassle again but there should be some sensible limits on what the OSMF can do otherwise it is open to abuse.<font color="#888888"></font><br>
</blockquote></div><br><br>I believe that an agreement of 2/3 of active contributors and a vote of the OSMF members is quite a nice garantee.<br>John mentioned that someone could just create lots of account, but honestly I suspect that kind of behavior would be caught quite easily and dealt with accordingly. If I was to detect, I would no doubt seize the board to see how to exclude those and make sure that we have a fair vote.<br>
This is really to empower the community in the end, not to try to shaft it.<br><br>Emilie Laffray<br>