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

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Andy Allan wrote:
> 1) Make the plan and the draft public. Ask for feedback.
> 2) Wait for feedback to be taken into account and expect/hope for a
> final version of the ODbL
> 3) See if the OSMF board approves
> 4) See if OSMF members like what results

The word "final" should probably be struck out here because it has kind 
of "gun to your head" ring to it: Take this license or be stuck with 
CC-BY-SA forever.

Instead, if either the OSMF board, or the members, are unhappy with the 
license (which is quite likely given that only ONE week is scheduled for 
phase 2 and I can safely say that the status quo would not pass a vote), 
then we need a new iteration; what is your "final" version then becomes 
the draft, and back to phase 1.

And this must be made clear when the vote is taken; that this is not a 
vote about "ODbL now or CC-BY-SA forever" but a vote about "ODbL or wait 
for revisions".


Bye
Frederik