[OSM-talk] Question that will not be asked

[Michael Collinson]

At 10:29 09/12/2009, Pieren wrote:
...
>But the OSMF never tries to reach those who are not reading the
>talk-lists or watching the forums. How many times have we seen a call
>for a simple question about the new license on the diary or on the
>main site page or on the header on all wiki pages ? Never. The
>community will have to reply to the simple question just at the end of
>the process with the threat that their contributions will be removed
>if they refuse and the unfair reply "why did you not participate
>earlier in the debats when it was the time for it ?".

Point taken. In hindsight we have been slow at this. Our general 
strategy has been to engage with legal-talk and all these deeply 
interested in actually formulating the license and supporting 
procedures, then broaden to all OSMF members as a reality check and 
feedback on how tidy and clear we are being before going to the 
general community without lots of ifs and buts. I suspect we may want 
to review the length of time we have for this. Meanwhile, thanks to 
Pieren for helping out by organising the survey at 
http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w . I peek at it every day and 
encourage more non-OSMF mappers to give your view.

Mike
License Working Group