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

[Liz]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2010, Richard Weait wrote:
> 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.

I've been asked ONCE.
I formally voted in an OSMF poll
very few were in that poll compared to the thousands not in the poll

and you cannot claim that you have made even an attempt at asking the 
community what they want.

How many people do you really think you have asked? Remember that some will 
have been asked more than once.
Now that is you numerator, now count the denominator.
This might be 'all contributors, ever', or 'contributors active in the last x 
months', or some other denominator, and then honestly decide if you have 
polled enough contributors to provide a fair answer.