[OSM-talk] OSM license change: A license to kill? -> How to make a nightmare come true!

[MP]

> Yes. At least when you expect 100000 people to go along and the issue
> has the potential to break OSM apart, it would not be a bad idea to send
> monthly information about the state of things.

Hmm ... perhaps sometimes it would be good to mass-email all members
when it is about changes with possibly devastating (mass deletion)
effect. Not everybody reads various blogs or parts of wiki around OSM,
but almost everybody reads their email.

>  >> But I guess it's
>  >> their own fault if 50000 people fail to scan blogs at a different site
>  >> for half-year old entries. Not worth a notification or a prominent hint
>  >> in the wiki.
>  >
>  > Click "BLOG" on http://openstreetmap.org/
>
> "Hardware Upgrade Appeal: Thank you"

So the information about the license was at the blog, accesible by
clicking on that hideous link at the right time to notice that...
Reminds me of The Hitchhiker's Guide to Galaxy - the post informing
that your house is scheduled for demolition was posted on a
posterboard in local townhall. OK, the posterboard was at far end of
cellar. Ok, it was hidden under door with sign "do not open, tiger
inside". And the door was blocked by old library full of books. But it
was there...

I personally had no idea about the license change before it got posted
on this list few days ago and I am contributing to OSM for more than
year and half...

Martin