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

SteveC steve at asklater.com
Mon Dec 7 20:56:50 GMT 2009


On Dec 7, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Ed Avis wrote:

> SteveC <steve <at> asklater.com> writes:
> 
>>> 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.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> But this is exactly what is objected to!  First the LWG 'decides what
> to do'

I'll stop you right there. They decided with open minutes, phone calls and open calls to be on the working group. How much more open would you like it to be?

Just because you disagree with the result doesn't make the process invalid.

Yours &c.

Steve





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