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

[SteveC]

Yours &c.

Steve

On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:55, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>  
wrote:

> SteveC schrieb:
>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 18:17, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>  
>> wrote:
>>> SteveC schrieb:
>>>> On Dec 5, 2009, at 3:44 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
>>>>> With a gun at their head: "Refuse: After the migration  
>>>>> (currently 26th February 2010), your contributions will not be  
>>>>> included in ODbL licensed downloads and you will not be able to  
>>>>> continue contributing.".
>>>>>
>>>>> If you call this a vote, then we have pretty different  
>>>>> understanding about voting.
>>>> Ulf!
>>>> Wonderful to have your input at this very late stage! Can we  
>>>> expect you to volunteer for the LWG? Please be sure to read the  
>>>> minutes of the last few months meetings first. Even better - can  
>>>> you outline your alternative suggestion?
>>>> For some crazy reason the LWG thought it should start with the  
>>>> members of the OSMF, you know, the OSMF which set up the LWG in  
>>>> the first place and then move on to thousands of contributors  
>>>> once the members had decided what to do. Crazy I know! Maybe they  
>>>> should have started by asking random people in the street.. that  
>>>> would be fun!
>>>> Anyway, do let us all know how your plan is better than what the  
>>>> LWG has built over the last year? Super looking forward to it!
>>>
>>> So this is a well designed and manufactured gun still heading at  
>>> the mappers head - to keep the picture.
>>>
>>> Maybe the OSMF / LWG should have *asked* the people involved the  
>>> most - the mappers?
>> Are you also living on planet Frederik? Out of all the crazy claims  
>> this has to be the most crazy. Where have you been the past year of  
>> consultations?
>
> Yes, that's you're personal way of dealing with opinions that you  
> don't like.

Not ones I don't like, ones full of BS because you don't want to work  
within a process and just sit about here at the last minute and moan.  
It's a serious point - where have you been the past year? Why the  
sudden intrest?


> The next stage will be that you claim that you are evil. We all know  
> that.
>
> But how does that respond in any way to the suggestion I've made? do  
> we already have numbers about mappers that are in need of a better  
> license, can accept a PD license, will never want to change the  
> license, ...
>
> To the best of my knowledge ... no!
>
> Regards, ULFL
>