[OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass

Liz edodd at billiau.net
Tue Jul 13 10:40:09 BST 2010


On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Richard Fairhurst wrote:
> Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
> > I still don't agree with this approach. It doesn't sit with my idea of 
> > democracy. When people vote they need to know for what they 
> > are voting, and what the cut off marks are considered to be.
> 
> It's not a vote.
> 
> It's a request by the OpenStreetMap Foundation for you personally to
> consider relicensing your contributions. The only question you're being
> asked is "do you agree to relicense your contributions?". You are not being
> asked to vote on what you think should happen to others' contributions -
> you can't be, they own the rights and neither you nor me nor OSMF can
> relicense them without their permission. You should tick the box solely
> according to what you are willing to permit with your contributions.
> 
> I hate to get all meta, but there seems to be a lot more "fear of fear of
> the ODbL" than "fear of the ODbL" (not to say the latter doesn't exist).
> 
> cheers
> Richard

And the arrangement was that 
whether the licence change went ahead or not
depended on how many people agreed to relicense their data
So it is still a vote







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