[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[Liz]

On Thu, 12 Mar 2009, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> Nick Black wrote:
> > I've always felt that you were completely aligned behind the aims of OSM
> > - we can disagree, but at the end of the day we're all here for the same
> > reason.  Right now, its really hard to find anything positive or
> > constructive in your ongoing bombardment of these lists.
>
> The same people that now want to have a telephone conference have been
> completely absent from the community decision making process during the
> last months. I don't know what they were working on but they surely were
> not working with the community. I simply cannot fathom why they would
> suddenly - without having made any attempt to connect with the community
> that was analysing the license draft, finding the problems, hammmering
> out possible solutions - want to have a telephone conference to "help us
> connect better".

I don't find a telephone conference acceptable.
While Frederick mentions the troubles of language, I don't want to be on the 
phone at 0200 local time. I'd rather be asleep, and my critical faculties 
probably would be asleep at that time even if I was nominally on the 
telephone.

Liz