[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[SteveC]

I think your substantive points have been answered by Nick, Grant and  
others Frederik. If you disagree let me know.

I'd encourage you like Peter to stop thinking everything is Steve. We  
have a working group who I'm guessing for the most part don't want all  
your personal attacks and so don't post much.


On 12 Mar 2009, at 01:32, Frederik Ramm wrote:
> 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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Best

Steve