[OSM-legal-talk] Noise vs unanswered questions

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Fri Sep 3 18:59:19 BST 2010


Did you read the minutes where all the CT issues are being discussed?

Have fun,

Steve | stevecoast.com

On Sep 3, 2010, at 3:03 AM, Simon Ward <simon at bleah.co.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Sep 02, 2010 at 12:39:11PM +0100, Rob Myers wrote:
>> On 09/02/2010 11:24 AM, TimSC wrote:
> 
>>> 1) How is the future direction of OSM determined? Community consensus?
>>> OSMF committees with OSMF votes? Something else?
>> 
>> Consensus decision making doesn't mean a 100% plebiscite vote or
>> minority veto power. It means an honest attempt to converge on a
>> compromise. Given this, the ODbL does represent community consensus.
>> It represents a compromise between many different ideological
>> positions present in the community around the norms that have
>> emerged in discussion over the years.
> 
> I don’t see much compromise happening from OSMF on the contributor
> terms.  There is a very small amount, but OSMF seems to want to stick as
> close to what they have, with no chance of what they consider a
> significant change.
> 
> The contributor terms are now the sticking point for many people against
> the ODbL+DbCL+CT combination, and these are not just people against a
> licence change from CC by-sa, but people who are in principle happy with
> the licence change.
> 
> These contributor terms define a large part of how the future direction
> of OSM may be determined.
> 
> Simon
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