[OSM-legal-talk] OS Opendata & the new license

[SteveC]

On Oct 1, 2010, at 4:46 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:

> On Fri, 01 Oct 2010 11:01:12 +0100
> Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 10/01/2010 10:38 AM, Elizabeth Dodd wrote:
>>> I ask once more
>>> 
>>> "from where did OSMF get a mandate to change the licence?"
>> 
>> The vote.
>> 
>>> OSMF is a small set of persons and is not representative of OSM as a
>>> community.
>> 
>> Any representational or governing body will be a "small set of
>> persons". Depending on which sense of "representative" you are using,
>> the vote rings true given my experience of OSM debates around
>> licencing and OSMF is as open and responsible or more so than other
>> Free projects.
>> 
>> Anyone can join OSMF.
>> 
>> - Rob.
>> 
> 
> The vote is not a mandate. It is a vote of a subset of persons. Being a
> member of the OSM community is not a condition of belonging to OSMF.
> 
> Not everyone can join OSMF.
> Joining is restricted to persons with enough spare cash to pay a fee in
> Pounds Sterling, access to a system for international money transfer if
> not in the UK, and a number of other practical points dependent on UK
> law - I would expect that minors are not supposed to be voting members
> of a UK company. The ability to manage well in written English would be
> a practical requirement.

Yes and they must also be a human being and not from Mars.

> To pick an obvious example, the persons who mapped Nigerian slums are
> unlikely to have the financial resources to join. Most students don't
> have such resources. I would not expect the students involved in
> mapping ShimlaPuri to have the financial resources.

I think they have bigger problems, like access to clean water, than what's the vogue way to license crowd sourced content.

> OSMF was set up for a particular purpose. Because responsibility for
> the servers implies responsibility for the contents, the extension was
> made to the licence. OSMF extended itself this privilege, not the OSM
> community.

This trolling is starting to get boring again. Please sod off and join 80n's band of merry morons.

Steve

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