[OSM-talk] Results of the opinion poll about Odbl for OSM

[Pieren]

Please find attached in this message a pie chart about the 'crappy
poll' results. New contributions to the poll are now very small and
the trends are more or less constant since three days. The numbers
have to be used as they are : nobody knows how good the sample is
representative, only a small number of contributors have been informed
about the poll and although some obvious duplicates have been removed,
it is still possible that some of the participants did not play the
game in all seriousness. When I look the time interval between
identical votes in the history, I still see two or three potential
duplicates where the same reply has been posted within two minutes but
I leaved them.

For the  340+ who replied, we have:
30% "yes, I will accept the new license Odbl"
45% "yes and consider all my data Public domain (no restrictions)"
3% "no, I will not accept the new license Odbl but I will if the
license is reworked"
10% "no, I will not accept the new license Odbl and wants to continue
with the CC-BY-SA2.0 license"
12% "I don't know yet because I don't understand the new license or
the possible consequences"

I will not comment the results myself, it was not my intent. I just
hope that it will reduce the speculations about "what the community
thinks about the new license".
I will close the poll at the same time as the OSMF vote. Feel free to
add your opinion until then:
http://doodle.com/feqszqirqqxi4r7w

Pieren
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