[OSM-legal-talk] JOSM and spam

[Grant Slater]

On 24 November 2010 09:57, Erik Johansson <erjohan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> It would be great if someone could convince the JOSM people to remove
> the ODbL blurb in JOSM, people get scared and spam everyone who hasn't
> agreed to the new license.
>

"OpenStreetMap is changing its license. This requires user
affirmation. Read  License change information or  Translated texts.
You can  state your decision here." (German says something different?)

Respectfully, I honestly do not believe this JOSM banner is the cause.
The banner is informative and provides the mechanism for the reader to
potentially agree to the terms. As has been pointed out there is a
much higher probability people are looking at the
http://osm.informatik.uni-leipzig.de/map/ and contacting others based
on that.

If people feel ready to agree to the terms then by all means please go
for it, but the Licensing Working Group is not yet actively asking the
great community. There will be an email out to the community asking
them to agree later and then, only once the decline option is
available.

In closing; if there are people doing broad (not to people they know)
"relicense now now now" style messages my word to them is relax and
hold fire. This is not a race.

Regards
 Grant