<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 9:17 PM, Pierre-Alain Dorange <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:pdorange@mac.com">pdorange@mac.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;">
80n <<a href="mailto:80n80n@gmail.com">80n80n@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">> That said, the strategy adopted by OSFM is one that is calculated to load<br>
> the bases in favour of enabling them to switch to ODbL eventually. </div></blockquote><div><br>I helped design the strategy. The problem statement was "how are we going to change the license when half the contributors won't respond, some will refuse and some are even dead". The solution, it was my suggestion, was to use attrition. Only permit new users to sign up to the new license terms. Eventally new contributions will outnumber the old. <br>
<br>This decision was made in a meeting between four people: myself, Steve Coast, Richard Fairhurst and Mike Collinson and is clearly documented here: <a href="http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/e/e3/Osmf_boardminutes_20080320.pdf">http://www.osmfoundation.org/images/e/e3/Osmf_boardminutes_20080320.pdf</a><br>
<br><br></div><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">> They do not intend to ask the whole community to vote on whether there should be a<br>
> switch. </div></blockquote><div><br>There have been repeated calls for a vote by the whole community. There has been no response.<br> </div><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">> This is a sign of their attitude towards the community they<br>
> control.<br></div></blockquote><div><br>That is purely my opinion. <br><br> </div><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">
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</div>Seriously, you believe in that ?<br>
What is the plan ? Why such an evil plan ? What is the conspiracy ?<br>
They want to control the world ?<br></blockquote><br>They do not want to control the world. That would be silly.<br><div><br><br> </div><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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