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

[Sam Larsen]

----- Original Message ----

> From: Kai Krueger <kakrueger at gmail.com>
> To: legal-talk at openstreetmap.org
> Sent: Tue, 13 July, 2010 19:49:38
> Subject: Re: [OSM-legal-talk] License Cut-over and critical mass
...
> Richard Weait wrote:
> > 
> > "My  vision of OpenStreetMap sees the community, the contributors, as
> > very  important; probably twice as important as the data, but perhaps
> > an order  of magnitude more important."
> > 
> > 
> > I hope that was clearly  my opinion, not policy of $anybody.
> > 
> 
> Yes, it was clear that it  was currently your opinion alone. But given that
> you are a member of the LWG,  it is not an entirely meaningless opinion.
> Also, that it was your opinion,  rather than that of the LWG is exactly what
> I wanted to point out, i.e. that  there is no consensus on this point within
> the LWG (that you could have  referred to in addition to your own opinion)
> and it is thus at the moment  unclear as to how this decision in the end gets
> made.
> 

Kai,  I understand your concern about having biased conflicting views on the 
working group, however, i feel that having Richard's view and others with 
different views will lead them to make a more balanced decision as there will at 
least be some debate in the LWG when the decision has to be made.
I feel imho that the LWG do represent the vast majority of mappers, care about 
the project, care about all the hard work that we all have put into this, have 
noted all the concerns that have been raised and will not make a decision that 
will cause too much damage to the project.  


Sam