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

[Olaf Schmidt-Wischhöfer]

Hi Tom,

> 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.

OK, then let me rephrase my concern using your language: „The CT make the 
voting right dependent upon being able to edit. This gives the sysadmins the 
power to decide who is a potential voter and who isn't. Some of the sysadmins 
have argued that this is not a problem. They ask us to trust them that they 
will never remove any voting rights by removing edit rights. The sysadmins 
underline this request for trust by removing the edit rights of all people who 
do not accept the CT, thereby also removing the voting rights.“

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

Where do I find the sysadmin policy for evaluating whether a blocking request 
is considered „unreasonable“?

I have been repeatedly told that making the voting right dependent upon the 
edit right is not a problem and that the CT do not need to be fixed, because 
the sysadmin team will always be reasonable. At the same time, the same people 
tell me that it is entirely reasonable to block my edit right and to thus 
remove my voting right. I see a contradiction here.

I (and several others) have explained the problem again and again.

I once made a constructive proposal for one potential way to fix the problem, 
which was met both with well-grounded criticism and with personal attacks. 
Hardly anyone of the people who criticised my suggestion have made any efforts 
to seriously work towards alternative solutions to the problem, and those who 
did were themselves ignored.

This email is my last try before I give up.

Olaf