[OSM-legal-talk] CTs and the 1 April deadline

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

On 01/04/11 15:17, John Smith wrote:
> Or better yet, change "active contributor" to "active participant" and
> include things like genuine mailing list posts or wiki edits or ...
> rather than restricting "interested parties" to only those who can
> edit...

I think that would be perfectly ok, albeit perhaps hard to define. (For 
example the evil OSMF could change the license on the Wiki so that Joe 
the would-be contributor cannot, for his moral reasons, participate on 
the Wiki any more etc.etc.)

The *main* reason for the active-contributor definition is that we need 
to exclude those who are dead, unreachable, or have lost interest, from 
the decision-making process. In my personal opinion, if someone should 
stop contributing to the data for some personal reason - e.g. he doesn't 
like the OSMF chairman's haircut - but that person still demonstrates 
some kind of interest in the project - e.g. by campaigning for a change 
of haircut on the mailing lists - then they should be included.

(I'd still like some wording that says they must have been active 
contributors at some time in the past - someone who joined the project 
*only* to discuss haircuts might not be the kind of contributor we seek.)

Bye
Frederik