[OSM-talk] It's all too fast...

[Gervase Markham]

The GPLv3 public revision process was 18 months in multiple phases, and 
it was based on an existing licence. We are trying to analyse a 
completely new and untested one and get it to a final version in 1 month.

I don't advocate the N years that the GPLv3 took, but currently the plan 
says:

2nd March
     * Finalise implementation plan following review of plan comments...

(So the deadline for commenting on the timeline has already passed? 
That's too fast on its own.)

12th March

     * Working group meeting. Review of community feedback received to
       date.

So all significant feedback has to be in within two weeks of the 
announcement? This is all far, far too fast.

Remember that:

- Some people don't log into or contribute to OSM every week; they may 
not even find out about this for a couple of weeks.

- We need to get input from communities which don't speak English; this 
requires things (including the licence) to be translated so they can 
comment on it.

As a straw man suggestion for comment, I suggest three months for 
comment and discussion, then a revision based on those comments, then 
another comment period, perhaps shorter.

We can make sure the existing-people-problem doesn't get worse meantime 
by making people creating new accounts agree to dual licensing under 
CC-BY-SA and ODbL 1.0.

Gerv