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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen wrote:
> What's wrong with asking everyone AGAIN ?

Everytime we have to ask, we lose people (when email we send them lands 
in the spam folder etc.); plus it is a lot of work; plus people will 
start complaining ("how often will they bother me with that?").

> Email is free, and a voting webtool is available (almost)!!!

Contrary to popular opinion, not every one of our contributors actually 
likes reading through legalese emails and participating in web voting.

> Tims webpage lets us choose from a number of license alternatives.
> (http://timsc.dev.openstreetmap.org/extralicenses/ )
> Add some slighty better elaborated  explanations, and anyone will be able to
> understand the consequences of his/her vote.

About 99% of our contributors will actually be annoyed by us showing 
down these explanations down their throats, and expecting them to spend 
valuable lifetime to understand the pros and cons of X different licenses.

> Much better then to be let the choice  of accept the current CT
> or "your contributions will be deleted".

I don't concur.

> As a bonus it may even restore the  community

I fail to see how more individual choice should achieve that.

Bye
Frederik

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