[Talk-us] Resigning in protest

[Ian Dees]

On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Dave Hansen <dave at sr71.net> wrote:

> On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 19:20 -0400, Chris Hunter wrote:
> >
> > I have major philosophical issues
> > with the way the license change is
> > being handled, and feel that I can
> > no longer participate in the OSM
> > project.
>
> I honestly haven't paid much attention to it.  I figured it was pretty
> messy, but legally necessary for OSM to continue to be adopted into
> certain environments.
>
> What did you find objectionable?  Maybe I'll be turned off by it too.


I'm not speaking for Chris, but I'm of the opinion that the OSM Foundation
did not perform due diligence in getting the approval (or at least the
opinion) of the overall contributors to the database. I think I understand
that the OSMF's opinion is that the license change is needed in order to
have a legal framework to operate internationally, but I don't think it's
appropriate to only ask the ~300 members of OSMF for approval.

Please take this with a grain of salt though, as I think the current change
only applies to new user accounts.
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