[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] License to kill

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Russ Nelson wrote:
> The barn down the road from me was standing on just four 9" beams.  We 
> kept saying "Boy, that barn has some structural problems.  It could fall 
> down at any time."  It didn't fall, and it didn't fall.  One might be 
> tempted to think that one could go into the barn and pull one valuable 
> things of one sort or another.  The barn finally fell down this winter.

Sure. But assume you have the choice of either replacing the barn today 
with one where you know the roof leaks and you'll have a hard time 
fixing it, or wait another few months for the barn designers to get 
their job done...

> and we're deciding whether the ODbL 
> meets our needs (I say "our" because I joined the Foundation a few days 
> ago.) 

I believe the Foundation intends to give a vote *only* to those who were 
members in good standing as of January 23rd so your few days had better 
be 40-ish if you want to have a say in the matter.

> Until the ODbL is finished, we kinda have nothing to talk about.  

1.

Are you aware that the initial OSMF timeline planned for ODbL final to 
come out on 28th March and OSMF member votes due on 7th April? Do you 
think that these 10 days would be sufficient to have a fruitful discussion?

2.

If we wait until it is finished and *then* complain about things that 
were known even now and that we could have helped to fix in advance of 
the date, then Steve would (for once) rightfully complain about people 
just sniping from the sides and not having an interest to help. No?

Bye
Frederik

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