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

[Andy Allan]

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 5:18 PM, Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com> wrote:

> this process appears to be defined no further than "lets see what happens
> and then once we have the results, this criterion will present it self". It
> won't! It will still be an n-dimensional decision and be no easier to
> define,

No it won't. When we know the results it will be a binary decision -
yes, or no. We will have all the information to hand. We will know
which countries will be affected, which contributors (if any) have
refused and for what reason, and so on. There won't be any "if we have
X% of Y" things, because we'll have the results. It's the only way to
make the problem tractable.

> other than that you can change the criteria to make sure the result
> you want emerges at the end rather than based on rational arguments as you
> can now.

That's quite an offensive accusation, and I hope it was aimed at me
rather than the LWG.

Thanks,
Andy