[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[Chris Hill]

For Pity's sake Fred, give it a rest!

 cheers, Chris



----- Original Message ----
> From: Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org>
> To: Licensing and other legal discussions. <legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
> Sent: Thursday, 12 March, 2009 8:32:19
> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate
> 
> Hi,
> 
> SteveC wrote:
> > In the past couple of license working group meetings we've been trying 
> > to figure out how to get more input from the community on everything 
> > without descending in to a free-for-all.
> 
> Does that mean that what we've so far collected on the Wiki (and the 
> lists, and the co-ment site) is considered as having "descended" into a 
> "free-for-all" and thus by implication somehow worthless? (Still 
> struggling to see the negative in "free-for-all" but you seem to be 
> convinced that the license must not be discussed by "all".)
> 
> You say that "issues should be raised on IRC"; does that mean that you 
> only want to discuss *additional* issues that are not yet on the Wiki, 
> or are you basically requesting that people copy+paste the Wiki pages 
> into IRC if they want to affirm the importance of these issues? Or is 
> this more of a psychological exercise where Joe Mapper is allowed to 
> speak his mind and be heard to make him happy (in which case it would be 
> ok for 10 people in a row to say the same thing).
> 
> Has it occurred to the license working group that such a phone call will 
> naturally be dominated by native speakers of English? Is the signal you 
> are wanting to send something like "we're looking to implement a license 
> for the UK and the US only, and the rest may do what they please"?
> 
> Bye
> Frederik
> 
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