[OSM-legal-talk] Contributor Terms upgrade ready

[Kai Krueger]

Mike Collinson wrote:
> 
> Yes the OSMF could produce a new set of Contributor Terms but No it could
> not force you or other existing contributor to accept them.
> 

Isn't that exactly what the OSMF board has just done? I quote from the
12/12/2010 board minutes:
"The OSMF board mandates the LWG to enforce mandatory acceptance of the CT
and ODBL in order to edit the database by March 31st"

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
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