[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms upgrade ready

[Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer]

Hi,

Kai described my concern with the currect CT wording very well.
Is the LWG still working on a reply?

I am asking because if the LWG is convinced that there is no problem, then we 
need to explain our concern is better words.

Olaf

> OSMF can't force you to accept them, but if you don't, you loose your
> active contributor status and thus your right to vote.
> 
> The "free and open" restriction probably still holds, but the vote does
> seem to be circumventable by the method suggested by Olaf, by including
> what you want to vote for in the new CT, then enforce those CT and finally
> vote, once only those are active contributors who have already agreed to
> the change through the new CT.
> 
> Perhaps the vote can be extended to anyone who ever reached active
> contributor status and responds to a request to vote within 3 weeks
> assuming a reasonable effort has been undertaken to deliver the request to
> vote.
> 
> Kai