[talk-au] Fwd: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license change process

Michael Hampson mhampson at fastmail.com.au
Mon Jun 20 11:39:34 BST 2011


What about those that haven't bothered to log in and accept or decline 
the new contributor terms?

Looks they too have now been blocked from editing in Potlatch2.

Regards,

Michael Hampson

On 15/06/2011 6:47 AM, John Smith wrote:
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Michael Collinson<mike at ayeltd.biz>
> Date: 15 June 2011 06:30
> Subject: [OSM-legal-talk] Announce: Beginning of Phase 4 of license
> change process
> To: "Licensing and other legal discussions."<legal-talk at openstreetmap.org>
>
>
> As per the implementation plan [1], we intend to move to phase 4 this
> Sunday 19th June or as soon after as is technically practical. This
> will mean that anyone who has explictly declined the new contributor
> terms will no longer be able to edit, (unless they  decide to accept).
>   This currently numbers 406 in total compared to over 191,000 who now
> contribute under the new terms. They or our forking folks may wish to
> grab a planet dump now and another one just before the phase 5
> cut-over to ODbL. Planet dumps are generally made every Wednesday as
> of 11:01 UK time and become available 3 days later. Next week's
> version will probably be made on Tuesday due to the coming UCL
> shutdown.
>
> I would emphasise there is currently no need to remove data from the
> live database since the license is still CC-BY-SA. I believe there is
> no urgency to do so until acceptances have been maximised, local
> issues that have a near term solution have been addressed and there is
> a sense of community consensus that it is time. The License Working
> Group will continue listening to all feedback.
>
> Regards,
> Mike
> License Working Group
>
> [1] http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Open_Database_License/Implementation_Plan
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