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

[John F. Eldredge]

I have been subscribed to the OSM-talk mailing list for about two months now; this current discussion is the first that I have heard of the license-change issue.  So, if there has been ongoing discussion of the issue in the last couple of months, it hasn't been on the general list.

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John F. Eldredge -- john at jfeldredge.com
"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

-----Original Message-----
From: SteveC <steve at asklater.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2009 18:35:13 
To: Ulf Lamping<ulf.lamping at googlemail.com>
Cc: talk at openstreetmap.org<talk at openstreetmap.org>; Tom Hughes<tom at compton.nu>
Subject: Re: [OSM-talk] [Announce] OSMF license change vote has started

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?

Yours &c.

Steve


>
> Regards, ULFL
>

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