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

[graham]

Andy Allan wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 3, 2009 at 6:01 PM, Gervase Markham <gerv-gmane at gerv.net> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> We've been talking about the ODbL for a loooong time now, way more
> than 18 months. It's not completely new. The previous draft was dated
> April 2008. If you're new to the discussions, then welcome, but don't
> make like the ODbL has never been seen before and that we're trying to
> do everything in 1 month.
> 

No, it's absolutely too fast. It's been discussed for a long time - but 
nearly entirely behind closed doors, with almost nothing concrete to see 
about progress on the legal mailing list (I'm not a subscriber, but have 
kept looking at the archives to check on what's happening - which most 
of the time has seemed to be 'Jordan's looking at it'). Gervase is 
entirely right.

I feel steamrollered, and don't appreciate it. The process seems 
designed to exaggerate a tendency to 'them and us' rather than community.

Please go with Gervase's suggested timetable instead. And build in some 
extra process for including results of discussion by 
non-english-speaking countries.

Graham




> Cheers,
> Andy
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