[OSM-legal-talk] [OSM-talk] Community vs. Licensing

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 4:37 AM, John Smith <deltafoxtrot256 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, we contributors are being treated with contempt alright, besides
>> not being asked what we contributors want, since this whole thing
>> started it's been nothing but dirty tricks to try and get the license
>> changed.
>
> No, JohnSmith, still you present a skewed vision.
>
> Every time OSM contributors have been asked, they have supported ODbL
> (or license change before ODbL had a name).  All the way back to SotM
> Manchester. And all the way forward through polls and surveys and more
> SotM conferences.  All the time, collaborative discussions and
> compromise.  Every contributor will make their own choice to proceed
> or not.
>
> But still you accuse other OSM contributors of "dirty tricks".
>
> You claim your volume of edits or gas consumption as if it were
> something unusual to OpenStreetMap contributors.  But then you import
> data without following the community import guidelines[1] And then you
> run 'bots without following the community automated edits
> guidelines[2] Not cool, JohnSmith.

And wage a campaign of reverting pages on the wiki[1], or hiding major
changes behind the "minor edit" flag[2]. And the seemingly
never-ending inane rebuttals of everyone else on the mailing lists
leading to simply unbelievable volumes of email[3].

Cheers,
Andy

[1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/User_talk:Firefishy#User:JohnSmith
[2] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/w/index.php?title=User_talk:JohnSmith&oldid=512994
[3] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk/2010-August/052736.html