[talk-au] [sharedmapau] Re: Plea to Australian decliners

[Ian Sergeant]

Hi Richard,

Like or loathe the licence change, and the manner it has been pursued,
sure.  But I really don't think anyone in OSM has tried to keep the
knowledge of the licence change quiet.  I think a fair few people have been
trying to get in touch with as many people as possible.

I've personally tried contacting Australian contributors individually who
haven't accepted or declined, and who haven't edited for a while.  These
are the people who may not be engaged with the community any longer, and
who actually may not know about the licence change.  Did you decline the
licence change?  Because if you did, I'd have assumed that you knew about
it and were aware of the discussion, and therefore didn't need to be
contacted.

Thanks,
Ian.

On 31 March 2012 09:14, Richard Colless <firefly at ar.com.au> wrote:

> Thank you, John. I couldn't have expressed it better.
>
> Throughout this whole sorry story, I have only ever received ONE
> communication form OSM. It was a begging letter asking me to reconsider. If
> not for the discussion of the forum, I would not have even known about the
> licence change. AI think that shows how much OSM cares about keeping
> contributors informed about changes.
>
> Richard
>
> On 31/03/2012 7:43 AM, John Smith wrote:
>
>> On 31 March 2012 01:54, Grant Slater<openstreetmap@**firefishy.com<openstreetmap at firefishy.com>>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>> Australian Decliners,
>>>
>>> As a mapper, contributor and member of the project's sysadmin team I
>>> kindly ask you to please reconsider your declined status. Time is
>>> about to run out.
>>>
>> You and others didn't care about us, told us to go away as we were
>> insignificant and our issue were unimportant and now you come begging
>> for us to reconsider.
>>
>> Perhaps the whole license issue should be reconsidered, after all you
>> are the one throwing out the baby with the bath water, you are
>> choosing to do this, not us, perhaps you should choose to call the
>> whole thing off.
>>
>>
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