[talk-au] Fwd: Re: [Osmf-talk] Results of OSMF Member Vote

[John Smith]

2009/12/28 Liz <edodd at billiau.net>:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Matija Nalis <mnalis-openstreetmap-osmflist at voyager.hr>
> To: Matt Amos <matt at asklater.com>
>
> I would actually expect OSMF membership to be *more* interested in the
> license change issues than the average OSM contributor; but even if we
> assume that it is representative of the general OSM population, it is
> terrible !

I wonder what numbers are needed if they wanted to change the
organisation constitution, you usually need a 2/3'rds majority by
default in Australia, something they don't seem to have achieved.

> "We should proceed with change of license only if that would result in:

This is the problem with polls in general, they are only as valuable
as the person writing them, or more to the point how biasly they are
writing them.

> Opinions above are GNU-copylefted.

This is funny, since he would have been better off with a cc-by
copyright license in this instance :)

Also something no one seems to have answered, if cc-by-sa isn't valid
on geodata then no data has to be deleted, it could be simply taken
and re-licensed, or what am I missing here?