[Legal-general] [OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] A super quick poll

[Sunburned Surveyor]

Richard Fairhurst wrote: "And while on the subject, it would perhaps
have been a _little_ polite
to contact the legal-talk admin before setting up the new list, too.
But, whatever. Maybe we need a new listwanking list."

This is my fault. I was trying to get a PD discussion list up. The
decision was made by the admin folks to make the list a place to
discuss general legal issues not directly related to the new license,
including PD issues.

Landon

On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 5:35 AM, Richard Fairhurst <richard at systemed.net> wrote:
> Peter Miller wrote:
>
>> Imho, neither talk nor legal-talk (the two lists to which this post was
>> made) are the appropriate venue for this discussion. Should this discussion
>> more appropriately be continued on legal-general at openstreetmap.org?
>
> It was made to talk because it's universal practice (like, since about
> 1635 AD on Usenet) to crosspost when requesting that followups go
> somewhere else, so that people don't miss the discussion.
>
> It was made to legal-talk, rather than legal-general, because it's a
> serious issue that hugely affects the new licence being considered by
> OSM.
>
> And while on the subject, it would perhaps have been a _little_ polite
> to contact the legal-talk admin before setting up the new list, too.
> But, whatever. Maybe we need a new listwanking list.
>
> cheers
> Richard
>
>
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