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

[Anthony]

On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 3:35 PM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> What I just can't tolerate
> is this kind of argument that professional lawyers
> have some absolute authority, that trumps every
> contributor's opinion. I'm not saying that these
> lawyers are wrong, but the argument that they are
> correct because they are professionals is a stupid
> kind of argument. It's like saying that professional
> programmers wrote this software, so now we
> can't ever modify it. Most people are involved in
> free software and open content projects exactly
> because they don't like being told such things.

+1

(I hope you didn't think I was making that argument.)