<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Aug 29, 2010 at 10:22 PM, <a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com</a> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jamesmikedupont@googlemail.com">jamesmikedupont@googlemail.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;">my question is, why dont you just make a fork for the new license and<br>
leave the rest of us to continue in peace? get the new system working<br>
and then we can talk about it.<br>
mike<br></blockquote><div> </div><div><br>This actually depends.<br><br>If the majority of the community (including OSMF and the sysads who run the servers) agrees with the license change, why should the onus of forking be on the license-change agreers? If this is indeed the case, then the ones who should fork are those for CC-BY-SA 2.0.<br>
<br>Right now, we are in the process of determining if the majority of the community indeed agrees. Once we have enough data and visualization tools to see the effect of the license change, then the community can decide whether to change the license or not.<br>
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