[OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

[Liz]

On Sun, 6 Dec 2009, Anthony wrote:
> > Is this email implying that contributers to OSM who are not members o
> > the OSMF can not vote on the license decision?
> >
> > If so, how are non-OSMF members represented in this vote?
>
> If a non-OSMF member rejects the Contributor Terms, all their contributions
> get removed from the new database.  That's pretty good representation!

<quote>
An email has been sent to 265 members with membership in good standing (paid) 
as of October 13th 2009. It has instructions and a unique personal link for 
voting.
</quote>

265 persons out of tens of thousands is in no way representative.
Whatever the result, this will not have been made by enough people to be 
accepted as valid.