[OSM-legal-talk] CTs are not full copyright assignment

[Tom Hughes]

On 27/06/11 09:53, Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer wrote:

>> Sorry, what has any of this got to do with the sysadmins? I just revived
>> your previous post and it seems to be about issues with the CTs which
>> are an LWG concern and nothing to do with the sysadmins.
>
> The CT make the vote dependent upon being able to contribute. This gives the
> sysadmins the power to decide who is a potential voter and who isn't. We are
> asked to trust the sysadmins never to deactivate accounts in order to change
> the group of active voters. The sysadmins underline this request for trust by
> deactivating all accounts of people who have not yet made up their mind.

Nobody's account has been deactivated. People have been asked to make a 
decision about whether or not to accept the contributor terms.

If they don't make a decision then they can't login, but as there is no 
reason not to make a decision that doesn't seem to be relevant. A 
decline decision is, in a sense, a not-sure-yet decision as it can be 
changed at any time.

Sure they won't be able to edit now until they accept, but we consider 
that a reasonable step to try and move forward with the licensing process.

Asking us to block everybody for six months so a vote could be rigged 
would clearly be unreasonable and would be ignored.

Tom

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