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

[Rob Myers]

On 07/16/2010 11:08 AM, Liz wrote:
>
> The government has little control over the bureaucracy. The bureaucracy took
> many years to agree to any data release, and we would expect that the process
> of agreeing to another licence by those bureaucrats to be as convoluted as the
> process here. It would also take a minimum of three years, starting from after
> the next election. If we ask "now" it won't happen because an Australian
> election date is imminent.

Thank you, that quantitative explanation makes the problem clear.

I am going to go away from this part of the conversation and clue up on 
some things.

- Rob.