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

Frederik Ramm frederik at remote.org
Tue Jan 4 16:08:35 GMT 2011


Hi,

On 01/04/11 17:02, John Smith wrote:
> On 5 January 2011 01:48, Frederik Ramm<frederik at remote.org>  wrote:
>> No, that is not acceptable to me. Someone who participates in OSM must have
>> the willingness to accept what the majority wants, or else they should not
>> participate in the first place.
>
> Ummm where is the majority of OSM contributors that want to switch to
> CT/ODBL and in the process loose lots of map data?
>
> So far I've only seen a minor-majority of OSM-F members agreed to some
> kind of process that might lead to a license change, and a majority of
> OSM-F board members agree to a license change.

Luckily we're now all signing up to the CT which will, for the first 
time, establish a well-defined path for any future license change, so 
the situation you complain about will be the last of its kind.

Bye
Frederik



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