[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

Andy Robinson (blackadder-lists) ajrlists at googlemail.com
Thu Mar 12 10:36:00 GMT 2009


Liz wrote:
>Sent: 12 March 2009 10:31 AM
>To: Licensing and other legal discussions.
>Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate
>
>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

Perhaps for those whose time zones don't fit with the proposed discussion
can put their usernames on the licence discussion wiki page. Then the
working group can decide if any further sessions are needed.

Cheers

Andy





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