[OSM-legal-talk] License Telephone Debate

[Martin Koppenhoefer]

2009/3/17 Robert (Jamie) Munro <rjmunro at arjam.net>:
> Ps. Reaching 100,000 users is extremely bad news for the license. I
> think we should stop taking new users unless they agree to make their
> contribs licensed under whatever future license the foundation thinks is
> appropriate. Or you could use wording like licensed to the foundation
> under a "worldwide, royalty-free, non-exclusive, perpetual license for
> all purposes in all media" - Right now, every new user that contributes
> is a new problem for the relicensing.

well, every old user is a potential problem for the relicensing as
well. Why should we exclude new contributors or ask them to agree to
whatever future license that we can't even name ourselves? I would
prefer not to read about users (=contributors) as problems.

Martin